Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-01

Oee0 greatest IN Iue NuuCduoSOo ""u
the country of the Don COssacks. Up
to August % the total number who died
throughout the Russian empire is given
at 1O7, ,647; but owing TO the known in
completeness of the official statistics
the real number may safely be reck-
oned as high as 10000.
VIENNA, August 31.-A postmaster
at Pltsen, Bohemia, died from cholera
after only single days Illness. 1t is
supposed that he contracted the dis
ease while handling German letters and
parcels. No other case of cholera has
been reported in the whole monarchy.
HAMBURG, August 31.-Evening-
There is no questioning the fact that
the present cholera epidemic is the
worst that has ever visited this city and
every hour the situation becomes worse.
The people are dying off like sheep and
the plague is spreading. 1t was thought
yesterday that the epidemic was abating
in viruence, the number OF new eases
and deaths reported for Monday being
far below those Of the day preceding.
Unfortunately this was not the case.
IL was only a temporary halt in the on
ward march OF the plague and now II Is
again marching forward, moving down
it's victims by the score.
A fearful feeling Of apprehension
hangs over the whole city and the be-
lief thai the doctors are helpless to fight
the Scourge grows in strength. The
people feel that they are helpless in the
face Of the terrible visitation that has
come on them, and many of them have
given up hopes Of escaping the disease.
This is in itself calamity, for courage
is one of the essential factors in fighting
the epidemic. The representative o.
the Associated Press here has seen in
the military drill shed the bod
les Of four hundred victims awaiting
burial. Owing 10 red tape 10 is
impossible to bury all the dead under
the usual regulations for the law re-
QuireS the production OF the papers Of
Identification before the body is con
signed TO the grave. Under ordinary
circumstance these papers are easily
procurabe but now when whole lami-
lies have been carried off by the scOurge,
the greatest difficulty is experienced in
getting the papers. Unless the fright
full mortality abateS it will be necessary
to shortly set aside the law and bury
the victims as hastily os possible.
Already it is believed that the infec-
tion has spread by the dead. Bitter i'm
precreations are heaped upon the au-
thorities for their medicines in let
ting the victims lie unburied TO scatter
the contagion among the living, while
they hunt for papers TO show the age,
occupation, etc, of the dead persons.
A reign of terror prevails, and every
person who can possibly do so is fleeing
the city. An exception must be made,
however, to this assertion. Those
whose duty calls them TO attend the
sufferers, physicians and those who
have volunteered their services, are do
ing a work that requires the extreme
of heroiSm. Among the hospitals,
everywhere where they can help, they
take their lives in their hands, without
hope of fame or reward and do their ut
most 10 alleviate the awful sufferingS
OF the plague-StriCken victims.
The ordinary form of burial will soon
have TO be abandoned and trenches
filed with quick lime will have to be
resOrted 10. In many parts OF the city
the shops of grOcers, bakers and
butchers have been closed by the
police, the owners and their men being
stricken down while attending to BUSH
ness.
The PruSsian Ministry of War has
ordered the garrison Lazaretto at Al
tona 70 supply the Hamburg hospitals
with five hundred beds.
The registers who record the deaths
in the city will keep their Offices open
until 10 o'clock every night.
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