Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-08
CHOLERA HORRORS.
Graphic Story of a Volunteer Ply
stefan at Hamburg.
The Plague About Wiped Out in
New York,

The Berlin correspondent Of the London
News sends the following extracts from let
tiers written by Dr. Hulseman. volunteer
physician serving in two cholera wards in
Hamburg, to relatives. Under date of Au.
gust 81 he writes
There is greatscarcity of physicians and
attendants here One Of my attendants
hanged himself behind door the other day.
have now young clergyman and members
Of the Young Mems Union as attendants.
They accomplish their duties admirably
You cannot imagine the terrible odor in the
wards. The moaning of the sufferers is
dreadful.
About one-half of them die within few
hours. There are about 5000 lying ill., but
the papers contradict it, | am dreadfully
tired. At the mortuary the corpses are piled
on each other in layers Of six. Do not write
me. l viii advise you now AID again. Every
one lies ma ed here Shirts a,e worse than
useless
On September he writes: 81 am still
well. Cases are more acute and frequent
Terror reigns here. Ny CLERGYMAN is a
splendid fellow, being at his post night and
Gay. l am always en foot Is hours, and
then sleep like rat in an ante-room of the
yard. AT fret sleep could not be thought
(, but finally nature claimed her rights. Nv
most beautiful thought in the anticipation Of
the day when shall leave my olation and
go back among tie trees Of my home Ii is
impossible to stand it loag. Every day death
half empties my ward, and every time my
eds are flied again. Burn all my carjs
and letters Do not pu- them on the dinner
table | have saturat ID them with corrosive
sublimate. hope that they will be read
able
In later letter, after recording his release
from quarantine and the refusal of various
hotels TO admit him, the doctor says he had
corpses in his waid from eight TO ten hours
before they were removed He tn nks terror
killed many before their timc II am per-
fectly knocked out, he says, land have al
lost forgotten what it is 10 laugh, received
salary aud good b jard with champagne,
bIt travelling expenses and the cost OF disiu-
fectants and clothes amounted to double the
salary. However, | went 10 Hamburg to
help, not to earn money
In describing the apathy shown by com
rade since he left the hospital the doctor de
cl"reS that he was himself in similar state
Of mind. He says; IAN objects around
complely lose their value on seeing men die
like flies. would not have hesitated a mo-
ment, if had had it, to give million dol
lars to save mans fe. Nobody is abe to
conceive of such feelings unless no has been
placed in similar position
TWO SUSPECTED CASES
New York.-Slnitary Superintendent Ed
son has under investigation a suspected cast
IF cholera reported from the Gouverneur
Hospital The suspect is Benjamin Beaver,
Russian immigrant, Ii years of age aud
homeless. He was found SICK on the side
wa k in front of 2l0 Madison street at five
O'Clock. He was suffering from cramp.
and the police had him removed to the
Gouyerneur Hospital where the physicians
regarded his illness as suspicious aud notiiie
thu board of health.
Joseph Muller, AZ years Old, died at his
home, 255 Wess Twenty-ninth strest The
police reported to the board of health that
he died under suspicious circumstances
Muller had been sick three DAYS with diar-
rCea and vomiting Chief Inspector Roberts
had the body removed to the Reception Hos
r'tal
meteorological examinations will be made
Muller was Il patato dealer a. Gansevoort
Market. He bed wife aud two children.
The house where he died has been diSinfected
and quarsntined. DIR. Roberts does not be
lieve that Muller died from cholera.
Dr. Jenkins, it was announced at quaran.
tine, has now decided to remove the immi-
grants from the Bohemia, IA days after her
arrival in that port, infested, as the health
officer then put 1t, from stem to stern with
cholera. They will be put on Hoffman Is
laLl.
CHoLERA's LAST FLICKER.
Quarantine, S. The five new cases on
board the Bohemia, reported on September
b. seems to be the. last flicker in the expir-
ing flame of cholera DR.. Byron's latest re-
port was as follows; Patients under treat
nent for cholera, 3; for measles, 3; CON
valescent, "a; no new cases nor suspects
since September %.
ALL RIGHT AT CAMP Low.
Camp Low, Sandy Hook. n. 1.-THE de-
serted condition of the quarantine station
continues. ior Sawtele paid off and dis
charged number Of laborers, nurses and
camp helpers. who returned to New York.
Mrs. Lomis, the cholera patient, is fast re
covering and will in all probability be dis.
charged in two days, whel quarantine will
ha raised