The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-22
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mt necessity Tor more.
THE PRICE CT PROVISIONS
enormously increased. and for hr,

THE PRICE CT PROVISIONS
has enormously increased, and for bread
which once brought five cents Loaf
fifteen cents are now demanded; the
milkmen have ceased th cir daily round
meat can hardly be Obtained at al and
it really seems a. thoulh TO the hOr'
rors Of the peslilence the gLawiug pangs
OF hunger are to be added. The most
pressing demands for aid are INSIDE by
able boiied men upon the resources
Of the dieburSiD, authorities. The poor
creatures would be willing enough to
work, hut unfortunately there IL no
! work for th, III to do, tor business is
stagGated aud they have been thrown
out OF employment. Ga S turday last
ninety applications tor relief were made
at the commlssary depot, and not les
than $500 rations were distributed to
the sick Wanue.s and misery. sick
ness, despair, and death deiace this
once beautiful city. All day long the
nose OF bcarses rafting through the
stree ts--.Or they are driven almost as
fast as the horses can 60, and even
then cannot dispose OF the Corpsos rap.
idly erough-is heard, and at night
fires cast their glare upon the SKY az
though Death were celebrating his VIC
tory, and the sound o. waiing in the
palace aud hoyel strikes the appalled,
senae OF him who ventures abroad in
this unhaI!owed time The yellow
tcYr- Las been confined to no particular
! locality, and rich and poor have suffer
ci allta.
o. ell the Inhabitants perhaps not
lO,0JO sleep al night within the city
limits; the rest leave in the evening aud
remain in the country till morning
Many OF those who thus have let have
tsen seized on the cars aud persisted
mi:erably at the various stations, for SO
intense is the fear OF the disease that
the country people turn from citizens
as from lepers, and will have nothing
to DO with those who have any appear
arce Of being injected. Indeed,
THE HEARTLESsNEsS AND INuUMAyITT
which generally accompany such terri
bic plaques as this have been consp'cu-
Gus here. The brood o. Satan-thieves.
rickpockets aud burglsrs-seem TO rave
been about the only persons who have
thrven during the past mouth. They
have come from other cities to prey
upon the dead and dying as upon the
living. SIrgularly enough, the drink
Ing saloons have not found their account
in the pIsgue. although during such
vistatiors drunkenness and debauchery
generally hold high carnival, the peo-
pie becoming reckless and ready to
| drown their rears in the diversion OF
alcoholic drinks Out OF between thirty
sud forty Ct such salooUs, which COM
mOnI are open from ore years end to
the other, all are closed but one, and
this by no means does q thriving bust
ness. The boliness OF The desperadoes
Is some hing simply wonderful. Uu-
happily, where all are dying, the dead
have often tn he let TOR hours without
ate ntioo, aud IN such instances it is
oten found that. after death, their per-
sous and rooms have beer robbed
Several arrests OF men aud women sc.
cused OF such dread al work have been
made, and it is likely 10 60 hard with
the sacrllegious Williams. Some under.
takers, in the press of business, have
refused 10 make returns TO the Board
Of Health, and Others are accused OF
hurrying corpses OF to their shops and
keeping them there until they should
find dime or burial There are not,
indeed, hearses enough for the work,
and sometimes as mary as nine corpse.
are placed in one wagon and driven al
iull speed to their Last resting place
The
HORRIBLE SPECTACLE
of the horses OF such q wagon running
away with their ghsstly burden is SAID