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THE SCOURGE OF THE EAST.
TERRIBLE STORY or TIRE CH0EERA
DEsOLAzX0N IN SPAIN.

Whoio Towns Depopulated and their
Local OaicfaIs In the Dead House
Eneeuraging Assurances from Heres
LONDON, August 25.-Advices from the
cholera sections of Spain to commercial
houses in London describe an utter para
lysis of business everywhere throughout the
country. The stories which come nom the
infected districts recall the worst Of the
scenes which are associated with famine
and war. For example. in the town Of
Erla, in the province of Saragossa, there il
no longer mayor or municipal govern
nent. The mayor and all the city officials
are dead, stricken down by the plague, and
all the doctors and chemists of the place
have fallen victims to the pestiIence. The
shops are all closed and the town is deser-
ted by the inhabitants. The people are in
destitute condition. and the mayor of the
neighbering town Of Egen, which is the
only place from which the fugitives could
expect aid, has forbidden the citizens to
render them any assistance. He has de-
clared an absolute blockade, and no person
is allowed toyenter Egsn on any pretext
Whatever. This is an instance of what il
commonly going on throughout Spain, the
provincial towns shutting their gates to all
intruders, physicians and government off,
GERS as well as people fleeing from the dis
ease. The survivors of Erla are conse-
quently camping out On the hillsides, with
out houses and with but scanty means of
subsistence. According to the latest news
some OF them had set fire to the town.
hoping by that means to burn out the
plague.
PARIS, Aug. Stringent measures ara
to o1,,1<. E
this city. Travellers from the south are
quarantined. The streets are cleaned ev-
cry night. The National, the first journal
to announce the appearance of cholera at
Marseilles, insists that the number of
deaths that has occurred there from the
disease is still much moderated.
GIBRALTAR, Aug. 15.-The existence Of
cholera within the Spanish lines was Off
cially declared to-day, and the disease is
spreading. There were four deaths here
to day from cholera traced to infection con-
traeted on Spanish soil. A deputation
waited on toe Governor Of Gibraltar to day
and requested him to shut off communica-
ton with Spain. This he refused to do.
The panic increases hourly and the exodus
grows correspondingly.
MARsEILLEs, Aug. l2.-Dr. BronardeI. of
Paris, has stated that the cholera here is
due to the filthy habits of the people.
WASHINGTON, August u.s. Surgeon Gem
eral Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital, says
that there is as yet nothing to alarm the.
people of the United States in the reports
coming by cable of the spread of cholera.
Despite all that has been said about the
probability of the epidemic reaching our
shores this year, he says there is not a sim
gle circumstance to render the risk greater
than it was last year. There is every indi-
cation that this years outbreaks are to fol-
low the course of those of last year, the
localities suffering most severely being
those which nave not taken the most ordi-
nary precautions of cleanliness and disin-
lection. DR.. Hamilton says Americas dam
ger is mainly from cholera in England or
in Cuba. 1t has been his impression that
fit comes to the United States it would
come by way of Cuba, and for this reason
the efforts of the service have been direct
ed mainly against contagion from that
direction