The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-21

Ada ten per cent 1.-THE estimate allowed here
Tor inaccuracy and bodies undiscovered or
bufled elsewhere gives III, o22
Allow eighty additional deaths for yesterday
from T. NJ, gives. IL, 002
The mail closes 10 day before dispatches CON-
pete OF yesterdays deaths or OF the mortality or To-
das can be received bun the above figures are sun.
ciently exact 10 convey true idea OF ITS probable
extent.
In Che compilation OF the foregoing table an aver.
age OF about per day has been gven TO the first
twenty days OF the plague, and this is not over.
estimated. The figures given for the succeeding
days in almost all the Numbers reported as
Inferred BY actual count by the employees at the
cemetery but these fail short IN many cases as II L.
frequently reported that bodies are abandoned ana
remain for days al Time IN tho houses before they
discovered.
families broken up and scattered; husbands
ABANDON their dying wives; mothers leave their chill
dreD 10 die alone, and In some cases entire families
are swept away. AS many as I've six corpscs
have been discovered In a single house. and there is
lack OF iaborers TO perform the dulles OF removal
and sepultnre OF the dead There Is also, as might
naturally he supposed, scarcity OF physicians aud
nurses 10 attend the sack ia The various hospitals
and where almost every Inhabited house is a NINA.
ture hospital IN ITSELF the exteut Of the suf-
fering must he indeed dreadful. Several OF
the most eminent physicians OF Montevideo
volunteered 10 the snccor OF tie stricken
Buenos Ayreans, and have labored with a zeal
Ia the face OF an Dminent and terrible death that
stamps them as heroes and phiani nroplsts second
10 none IN the worlds history. Among the pn ysi-
claus OF both cities who have within the past week
given mp their lives IN rne noble work are Drs
hunz, Rva and Poyet Dr. DagnInio. OF tins cIty,
Wa a4so reported, dag or two since ~ having
shccuinbcd 10 the scourRe; but though has bretnre
nom tubs CITY and Buenos Ayres are swept away
Hoin hlm al Intervals OF o few days. he stn cHngs
tins lar.
k'ch aud poor arc alike stricken with the malay,
ano ~ i doubtful whether yellow fercr ever before
NJ least M The New World. held SUCH "A vhastly car.
nval among mankind General Bartolomo Miire
ex-PIesdent Of the ar sentine Regublrc still wrthes
In his bed OF suffering though both himself ana wife
are az present reported ~ conyacacept, All hrs
i ,siy nave oeen arected and Colonel rrederico
pronounced out oil danger, but General Mansilia
Colonel Rodriguez, Senor Buiiesterc, a member OF
The Public Commission; Viton, Deputy OF the Cham.
bers; Dou Maxine Lopez Torres Don Msteo
Astango, Don Francisco Carrera ana wife, Don
hlgues Hoitguera and many other prominent ON
oials and citlcns have perfshed within a few days.
new cemetery, 10 receive the lever victims. ras
the Rachnela--the old panfheons being inadequate.
train railroad mas also been laid from the city
TINS new metropolis, and the bodies are carried OUT
no time 20 construct coins or burial cases The
stock hand long since exhausted, and tho
terrible harvest u bushes. that has sprung un.
About 10000 persons have ned the oity. some
taxing refuge in bonIeyideo and the towns up the
river farana bu ~ Tar the larger portion are ia tue
o0nl,o, within distance Of from ten 10 nfu miles
.Jom Buenos Ayres Peasants and oaSoaos living Ia
miserable mud JAILED huts, with straw roofs. nave
seesl boxieaed with nportuiais tenants from among
the wealth and arissoeracs Of the Republic, and %
SCORES 81 cases are RECEIVING ~ nuen y s11e 20 Se
who lived IN superb style Two months ago are now
covering among the nuts on me plains AND sleeping
an tsds lad upon the moor Of earth.
in Rucnos Ayres nsef panic, terror and fear have
exhausted themselves. aud matters have settled
down almost 70 ssold resignation. THIS 70 owins