McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-25
THE CHOLERA sCoURGE.

The Plague Holding Relentless S,ray Ore,'
Naples-Alarming Increase im the Death
Rate.
A London dispatch says: The exodus from
Naples during the past week has been so great
that lodgings in elghboring villages are OBJ
tanned only at fabulous prices. Sometimes as
high as 500 francs month for a single room
is demanded. The better sections of the town
are deserted, and the shops in Toledo are
closed at o'clock in the afternoon. The
theatres are all shut, and many of the poorer
streets are as silent as death. Even the cafes
are closed, and the only sign of life is the
joiners hammering rough collins together.
In some of these streets absolutely everybody
is either dead or sick. In one street, The Via
Duchesse, thirty cases occurred in single
house. The smell of burned sulphur is every
where, and the wretched people of the poorer
classes are either stupefied or frantic. Mean
the archbishop have had the effect somewhat
of dispelling the superstitions about per-
sons and allaying the class hatred which
ragged at first. But the public morale
is still worse than it is possible to describe A
mob attacked, in the Yea Del Purgatorio, q
man whom they suspected of throwing
sale on the piazza. They dragged him back
and made him eat the cakes until the owner
interfered in self defense. Out of sheer per-
yersity the people eat more fruit and vege-
the municipal palace, two loafers got big
basket of figs, and in the presence of a large
crowd began to eat them on wager. The pO-
lice marched them off to Jail. A woman who
was selling fruit on the corner fell over dying
with the cholera. The crowd made bonfire
of her stand and fruit, and then left her to die.
Nobody would carry her to a hospital.
Although the disease is generally of a mild
character, compared with the number of
cases, there are many instances like the fore
going of its startling suddenness. Severalpe
n a rpQ ixyf nl1 in fHo or.
and been taken Off dead. A woman who was
taken with vomiting during mass died before
she reached home. The terrors of the plague
have been intensified by the scoundrelly &C.
ton of the butchers, who raised the price of
meat as soon as the panic began, but the king
was followed in his carriage by mob of
women Shrieking to have the price of meat re-
duced, and the officials accordingly took steps
to import beef cattle and reduced prices. The
people in the slums still defy the law boldly.
Yesterday the body of a woman was buried
in the little garden of her home, and when the
police arrested the husband, a great mob
inspiration of the archbishop tie
fort to discourage professions and the like,
though with little success. There has been
an enormous revival of religious sentiment in
up by Garibaldi in 1850. have all been opened
and the whitewash scraped Off the holy pic
lures. Crowds, wild with joy, watch the
work, and hail with shouts each restoration.
The professions are continued in the poorer
streets, chiefly by women. Churches are
thronged and street affairs are erected. The
police do not dare to interfere with the affairs.
The most eXtravagant stories of miracles
worked are received with great credulity by
the populace. The hospital aid and arnbu-
lance systems have been overpowered by the
awful increase in deaths, and for day or two
it has been necessary to leave corpses waiting
SO long that they become putrid, thus aiding
vastly to contagion. The situation in this re-
spect, however, has been improved by the
king ordering the military to give assistance.
Scores of old omnibusses, covered with black,
have been converted into hearses. The hero
ism of King Humbert makes the most well
come royal picture Europe has looked on for
years. The king is accompanied always by
pitfalls and afflicted quarters, scattering money
and kind words right and left. Che total
number of deaths in Naples is now consider
ably over two thousand. All have occurred
since August 10th.