Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-08
no Cometh without Warning aud
Reapeth without Mercy Where
He Hath Not sovn.
Whole Families Out Down With Not
Member to Perpetpa,e the
Name that Was.
The Dead have Multiplied Faster
than they Could be Consigned
to Mother Earth.
The Estimate Of the Total Rayages Of
the Plague Placed az the BnOr-
nous Figure Of 20l5.

LouIsvutE, KY, Dec. y.--rhe
Courier Journals STAFF correspondent
has sent his paper ~ the result OF his
tour through the plaguc-strioSen dis
trict the following, nom Mount
Pleasant, Harlan county, Kys
"No one who has not personally
visited the country can form any Idea
Of the woe that envelops like wind.
ing sheet and casts the pail Of
desolation and sorrow every
where Almost every house In
many sections has contributed
It's Que or more Victims 10 the hun
dreds who have gone TO an the slmplc
country graveyards, ana the mourn.
ing Is as widespread as the hills which
have been devastated.
al LEFT Mount Pleasant three days
ago and travelled along Clcverfork and
the little streams employing into 4 and
thon went on to Poor Fork along Whose
banks in Harlan aud fletcher counties
scores have yielded up their lives 10
the awful scourge
"From Poor Fork crossed the
Cumberland mountains into Wise aud
Isle OF Wight counties, Virginia, en-.
counterIng In the former such CON
ditlon Of horror that my heart fails
when begin to write.
at one place IN Har-
lap county learned OF
an instance where Ave out offs family
Of seven, the Clarks, living on Poor
Fork, succumbed TO the tcourge.
"In another instance the only living
member Of u family Of Ave was babe
not yet able TO prattle
I'm another case the father and three
children had left boreaved ~lfe and
mother to mourn her sorrow
alone, and SIN In another instance
not one Of household OF four remained
10 perpetuate the name
al Letcher, the county cemetery
has thirty-Feven new.made mounds
filed from one neighborhood not Eve
miles square. In that section almost
whole families were swept
away, and In many more
death had taken n majority.
"The deaths In Letoher county
Kentucky, have been far above the
average Of those In any other county,
save Wise county, Virginia, In which
the disease has made wider swath
than In any have visited
They number a. nearly ~ the
best authorities could estimate 200,
and the number OF cases have exceeded
that fully three.fold
II was not until crossed into Viz
glnia that the most pitiul stories
reached my ean Hero / was told that
near the little town Of Eboden in
graveyard containing sixty -tAree new
graves
ywEgTY.NINE
persons out Of fho Baker
family had died. / waa told that IN
one day thiriy-three persons had died
that there were not grave clothes aud
collins enough in the neIghborhood 10
bury them. The physicians who prac-
tlce in the county were totally unable
TO cope with tho disease, aud the dead
have multiplied faster than they could
be- buried.
"In Wise county tie deaths exceed
400. In this county, as IN Letcher,
the number Of those attacked haas been
enormous, In many instances there
not being enough well people 70 care
for the sick.
"In Lee county met DR.. w. &.
Winter, He has been in ihe infected
section but about three weeks, butsinco
bis arrival he has treated scores Of pa
tients and saved every one. In Lee
county, as, In fact, in all the distiicth
Ia which have pursued my inyes-
legations, the disease Is now decreas.
ing, both IN the number attacked
aud IN It's fatality, and while fresh
cases appear singly and ~ twos and
threes daily, they are lacking In the
malignant features which marked the
epidemic before the recent rains and
frost.
"'rhe mallgant plague seems 10 have
SOL 10 Ia mid-summsr and has been
rayaging the back districts Of Ken
lucky and Virginia for not less than
three months. II IL estimated that the
greatest number OF deaths occurred
during the second month Of the
scourge.
Although situate 10 tbs backw0ods
an Is the plague-stiicken district, 81 10
something 70 DO wondered ~ that 4
disease 80 fatal should run high-haDded