Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Incidents OF the Plague In Buenos
Cor. of tho Now York Herald.

Cor. of the Now York Herald
The most extraordinary tales are
now being narrated by eye witnesses of
the scenes related, and continually find
ing their way into the public prints,
and may one day form q CHASTITY g liter
allure of the plague" Among those
current are the following half dozen in-
cidents which have gone the rounds of
the press, most of them being vouched
for, but forming only specimen cases
from among the thousands that have
occurred
In March last cpnfectioner broke
open his coffin while being carried to
the south cemetery, and, feeling faint,
weak and Mortified, rushed into neigh
boring puiperid for glass of brandy.
After drinking it he said to the puipcro,
cannot pay you, as | have no mon
ey ] have just broke out Of my coffin. :"
Every occupant of the house fled as
though q fury was pursuing them. A
street messenger, carrying al empty
coffin on his head, enters grogshop,
and putting the coffin on the counter,
drinks till he falls to the floor, and is
carried away with the coffin. An engine
driver on the narthern railway line was
lying in agony in his bed. Suddenly
he starts up and rushes from the house
q maniac He meets fellow workman
and tells him, - am gong to catch
my train His comrade took HIM back
to his home, but he died two hours af-
ter reaching it, In the e0nre4'3iUos, \
class of poor alleys-way tenement
houses, the mortality was dreadful and
AS many as 70 dead bodies are reported
to have been taken from one of these
fever dens, and the scavenger carts were
employed III the removal of the cor
pses, sometimes actually breaking down
from the weight. At one time collins
were publicly hawked or peddled about
the streets, and later the popular COM
mission distributed them gratuitously
to the poor One day man came up
and asked for "a coffin from the com
mission to bury dead relative. The
burial case was furnished, and two days
later he appeared and asked for coffin
for the same person as the first one was
asked for. 1t finally turned ont that
he had, with some acquaintances, been
INDUCING in a drunken spree, leaving
the relative unburied At last one Of
the acquaintance died of fever, and
his body was promptly put into the
coffin; land now," said he, eve are
going to bury both together"
In the haste Of flight from the city
many houses were abandoned, with all
their contents, and Mt once the thieves
set up e profitable business by watch
ing their opportunities and carting
away all the furniture and other effects.
This has occurred in scores of instances.
and the police now hold large numbers
of KEYS OF abandoned dwellings,. Dur
ing holy week-which terminated April
9th-the plague reached its extreme
violence, and it was at that time that
coffins, or rather simple boxes, were
pcddled in the streets. At this time
also the new cemetery at the Chacarita
was opened and the workmen who
were employed as grave-diggers actual
" pursued their CHASTITY calling by the
light Of lanterns far into the night, be-
ing unable to inter the bodies rs fast
as they arrived during the day. 1t may
interest many persons also 20 learn that
among these grave-diggers and mortn-
airy laborers there was smaller ratio
of deaths than amoug any other class
of people
Relief of a substantial description
is still being sent in freely by our neigh
boring South American cities, and there
is still large need of aid. Montevideo
has forwarded fully $4,000 in cash
alone.