The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-26
.GIrIely GnteIlirgy (s I'd
HISTORY OF EPIDEMICs
In Wheeling and Vicinity Since the
Year 1882.

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Inns In Montreal. ana on ne 9th In New
Ynrt, wien fthe GREAT stSmpede com.
!, enca5 T0n tha IA ~ 'Jnlv n had reached
4 ihsnv and nm the btb Philadelphial
Evsrv body who could eeL out Of The city
isit The boats and the stages were fail,
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snv wav IN set ort Of ne city 10 the noun.
tsins ~ tho bivblandg. or any place 10
he cnSn,Ty TIE towps and he country
nnfth and sorth were being filed With
stTsnc oars from New York. But The pes.
nIa yonid haTdlv allow travellers or stran.
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i've Gays o az rPn and con,d .nesk onIy
sna whisnerin0, soneakInp voice
The univ medicine I remember OF giving
him (though other medicines were doubt
less given was calomel, castor oil ana u tut-
penans, a. , S,sssu n sUs bS Prof Obids
The man tinsiiy recovered, but was sail.
waited, for which he gave the doctors many
scoldings and very bad name. This col,
ored man was the only case OF cholera |
remember OF seeing In Pitbdsld during
the years 1882 and 1888. 1tspread largely
over the country and many cases occurred,
but as the people became more accus.
toned to It the great fear and dread passed
away. i,
The above Is a short outline Of my chol'
era experience in large inland mountain
town In Massachusetts,. The same kind
Of excitement existed over the country
and the history Of 1t In one place is, 70 4
great extent, the history Of y