The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-13
Terrible Condition OF Affairs In the
spanish yinces---KOmarOff's
Statements Not Implie-
lilly Believed.
Considerable Excitement Over the
Royal Visitors In Ireland
Their Reception Too
Flattering.
THE LAND OF TIE CID.
Spanish Provinces PIague-Sttickeu-That
Terrible AsiRtic scOurge, Cholera,
Closely Follows the Disastrous
Earthquakes.

LONDON, April l2-rne Spanish Govern
ment is at last forced to admit that it is
threatened by another national calamity of
the gravest kind. 1t has tardily admitted
that the mysterious disease which made it's
appearance some weeks ago at San Felipe de
Jstivs, in Valencia, lie Asiatic cholera. This
has been maintained from the first by the
press and public, but has been persistently
denied by the physicians. The Government
officials have chosen TO credit the doctors
rather than the laity, and have hitherto
been deaf to all appeals for aid or for the en-
forcement of sanitary precautions. Now the
doctors themselves are appalled, at the spread
and virulence OF the disease, aud they are
loudest in the cry for help. No further con-
csalment OF the facts is attempted, and, in
fact, secrecy now would be impossible. The
cholera has spread from San Felipe de JatiYs
to Alcira, Villapuevs de Alcolea and Man
uel, in the province OF Valencia, which is on
the eastern seabosrd OF Spain. Thence it
has been carried by shipping TO Port
Genoves in Almera, az the southeastern
corner OF the peninsula, to Malaga on
the southern coast and even to Mahon on
the BAelearic Islands. The whole seabosrd
is seriously threatened. The municipal aud
provincial authorities are at last aroused to
active measures of prevention and relief.
LszaIettos are being hastily provided, IA.
tons and supplies OF medicine are being dis
tributed to the destitute, and volunteer re-
lief committees are furnishing delicacies aud
nurses 20 the sick. There is great dsstitu-
ton among che families of many OF the
sufferers. The scourge, as usual, chiefly
attacks the poor, and those who either from
poverty or ignorance fail to keep themselves
aud their surroundings clean. But almost
everybody in the places where the disease is
most prevalent is poor. These very places
were rsvaged by the earthq cakes last year.
and many people lost all their friends aud
property. Those of the survivors who had
means lett contributed Ii oeral to the relief of
the others, and thus pinched themselves.
Now il is as much as the communities can
do 10 care for those already attacked and TO
bury those already dead. In view of the
warm and humid season and the approach
of summer, the plague is certain to spread.
and il it does not become uncomfortable it
will at least become an unbearable tax upon
the money esources OF the afflicted towns.
They are now making pathetic appeals to
the Provincial and General Government TO
send them money food, clothing, doctors,
nurses, and soldiers to form sanitary cor
doDs. Public prayers for the plague stricken
people are ordered in many churches, aud
the papers are urging prompt action by the
Commissary and Quartermaster Depart
ments. The general public bss hitherto
been unexciteo by the reports of sickness in
Nslen cla, having been fooled into calmness
oy the doctors, but when the terrible gravity
~ the situation becomes realized there rs
likely to be a fierce outburst of indignation.