Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-02
THE SCOURGE.
Russian Troops and People Panic
Stricken.
FAMISHED PROVINCES IN DANGER.
Cholera Almost Sure to Invade the Dis
tricts-Russlans Blame tho British
for Lack of Vigilance on
the Frontier.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 30.-A num-
Der of doctors sent from here by the
government have arrived at Baku to
aid the local doctors there in checking
the ravages of cholera. The Russian
fotilla in the Caspian sea has been Or
dered to watch all ships leaving Persian
ports The quarantine stations in the
transcaspian territory have been in
creased in number and week has been
added to the time to which individuals
are subjected to quarantine. All i'm
ports of food are subject to strict
medical examination, and everything
known to medical science will be done
to stamp out the dreaded scourge.
In Dzizak, in Turkestan, $50 of the
inhabitants have died with the disease
in four days
The epidemic is most virulent at
Kaahha, in the transcaspian territory.
Brandy, sugar and tea are daily dis
tributed to the troops. The fears that
the disease would invade European Rus
STA have been repeated on the frontier
here. The inhabitants and troops along
the frontier are panic stricken. The
weather. class are seeking safety in
fight from the infected towns and viii
lagos.
1t is reported that cholera has ap-
peared at Tzaritzin, on the Volga. If
the report is true the scourge is almost
certain to ravage the famine stricken
provinces.
NJ. Fadajeff, assistant minister of
communication, has been sent to
Tzaritzin and Col, Venderichs, who did
excellent service in restoring order on
the Russian railways during the famine,
has been dispatched to Tiflis with full
authority to adopt all measures to ar
rest the spread of cholera through rail-
way traffic.
The Teheran correspondent of the
Times says that the news from Me-
shed, capital of the province of Khoras-
san, is that there is continued de-
crease in the number of deaths from
cholera at that place. The average
death rate at Meshed is now officially
stated to be twenty-five daily. The
previous official report placed the aver
age number of deaths per day Mt eighty
five, this being very large decrease
from the number given in the proceed
ing report.
The Russians blame the British in In
dia as the indirect cause of the epidemic
in permitting the disease to enter Rus
STA. The English are accused of omit
ting any effectual pressure to induce
the northwestern frontier people, most
ly the Afghans, to adopt proper meas
ures of isolation and sanitation. A
gentleman from central Asia relates
that the corpses of victims of cholera are
kept in some sort of quarantine be-
tween Herat and the Persian frontier
and are then sent to be buried
in the sacred precincts of Meshed,
thus increasing the contagion.
Russia's own quarantine has failed to
exclude the disease. It is absurd to
blame us, rs it would be for us to blame
Russia for building the Central Asian
which has been the direct
means of introducing the present out
breaks.
There was not single case in Baku
before last Sunday, when five cases ap-
peared simultaneously. A strange feat
nre of the plague is that at Bokhara,
The dirty capital, only few miles from
Baku, there is not single case of
cholera.