Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-13
SPREAD OF THE PLAGUE.
Two English Vessels Infsoted-A Flight
from MarseilIes.

MADRID, Aug. 12.-There were SGT new
cases of cholera and 1929 deaths from the
disease reported yesterday throughout
Spain. Thirty-five new cases of cholera
and 10 deaths from the disease were re-
ported in this city yesterday. Fifteen Of
the new cases exist in one street. This
discovery has caused sensation, and the
authorities are vigorously disintecting
the thoroughfare.
The Spanish authorities to-day removed
the land Gordon which they established
yesterday against Gibraltar because
of the death there of a person from an
illness resembling cholera. The inhab.
itants of Gibraltar are demanding the
establishment of an English Gordon
against'Spanish territory, fearing the inn
pOrtation of cholera. The Spanish ports
have all been ordered to establish quar-
anttne against arrivals from Gibraltar.
INCREASE OF THE DISEASE.
The number of cholera cases has great
ly increased. In this city so new cases
and Is deaths, and in the province IL new
cases and IS deaths were reported to-day.
Travellers in many districts are quaran-
tined Tor periods OF from five to twenty
days and undergo great hardships, being
lodged in barns or in the open air, and are
suffering from lack offoOd. Some villages
are strictly cordoned, trenches having
been cut to stop travel on the roads and
the villagers are threatening strangers and
compelling them to leave. The govern
ment has ordered the Governors of the
provinces to suppress lazarettos, but the
Governors are, in many instances, power
less to carry out the orders.
THE RECORD ECLIPsED.
MADRID, Aug. II, 3 A. M.-The Gazette
to-day says that in the past "a hours 9, 464
new cases OF cholera and 2,100 deaths
have been reported from 5T6 towns in 80
provinces in spain. This is the highest
number of victims yet reported. The
press calls upon the government and
higher classes TO combine in efforts to
alleviate the national calamity. The
King and Queen have sentlarge donations
to SaragOssa and Granada. The epidemic
Is visiting all the fashionable seaside
resorts. At each place visited panic
ensues, and the place Is deserted in 48
hours. To-day 6 cases were reported in
one house in Madrid. senior SilYela,
brother Of Minister SilVela, was seized,
but has recovered.
PANIC STRICKEN FUGITIvEs.
MARsEILLEs, Aug. 12.-The cholera
panic increases daily. The average Of
departures from Marseilles by railway
alone has already reached 1000 per day.
AS an instRnceof the laxnass with which
the Marseilles sanitary authorities per-
form their duties, the captain Of an Eng
lish vessel lying In this port may be mem
toned. The captains daughter died of
cholera aboard the ship. He at once no.
titled the authorities, and requested dis
infection of the vessel. Although at noon
to-day thirty hours had elapsed since the
girls death, no official actian has yet been
taken concerning the event by the Mar
seilles authorities.
Suspicious deaths have occurred at
Salon and Pelissanne. A refugee from
Marseilles has died at Bastia. The
Italians refuse to allow Marseilles
steamers and mails TO enter Leghorn. The
deaths from cholera mere to-day numbered
II. Twenty-Five new cases were admitted
to the PharO hospital.
THE ATTACK ON THE FRENCH.
PARIS, Aug. 12.-Gen. de Courcy tele-
graphs as follows:
Eve have fixed our headquarters at
Halh Pong during the prevalence of the
cholera. There were II deaths from
cholera yesterday in Hath Pong, and 66
persons are down with the disease to-day.
We have a large number Of volunteer
nurses 10 care for the sick. There is an
excellent feeling among the troops"
ODESSA IN DANGER.
VIENNA, Aug. 12.-Dispatches from
Odessa state that several cases of ofsickness
resembling cholera have occurred in
Odassa's suburbs, and that in conse-
quence all arrivals from Marseilles have
been prohibited.
DYING ON A STEAMER.
GIBRALTAR, Aug. PA British steam
ship lies quarantined of Mer E Kebir, in
Algeria, with four cases of cholera on
board. One person has died of the disease
on the same vessel.