The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-09-15
MISERY AND GRIEF.
DISMAL SCENES IN THE STRICK-
EN- CITY.
The Plague as Virulent as Ever-Scarclty
Of Food Among the Lower Classes
Fear the Government viii
Interfere in the City
Aff,irg.

HAMBURG, Sept Interpretations as
to the abatement of the plague has not
been realized in the last two days On
Saturday there were $40 fresh cases, or
81 more than on Friday, and 257 deaths
or i more than on Friday. Sunday
there had been 1893 fresh cases. or twelve
fewer than Saturday, and 2S2 deaths or
"a more than Saturday. The number
OF persons in cholera hospitals and bar
racks on Saturday was 3,l24 and Sun
day 3,239. A city physician says that
the average rate of mortality has been
two cases in every five. The official
statistics of the whole plague will be
given out by the municipal government.
There is much curiosity to know
whether the sanitary officials have cho-
sen to acknowledge that they have pub
lished falsehoods or to keep on publish
ing lalsehoods. The agitation in Berlin
in favor of curtailing the state rights o.
Hamburg has given q new motive for
concealing tine truth, and many inhuen.
tial citizens have secretly advised the
authorities to minimize in their report
of the ravages of the plague in order
that the imperial government may have
less excuse tor interfering with the city
affairs. The most conservative figures
place the number of cases at 1900 and
number of burials was 457 on Saturday
and Sunday was 492 or go far in excess
OF the number of deaths that the city's
hospitals and houses are believed to be
practically free from dead bodies. The
want of food among workingmens fam
lilies increases, and social Democratic or
gans call for government loans to allevi-
ate it. They say that there are $1,000
persons in Hamburg who are absolutely
destitute with hardly clothes to cover
them. and neither money or food from
one day to the next. The suburbs
Hamerbrook, Born and Barmbeck, are
said to contain the largest number o
impoverished families and for all three
immediate relief through government
loans is demanded. If such help is not
forthcoming soon. the social Democratic
editors prophesy that the city will expert
ence such desperation and misery as no
city has experienced since the revolu-
ton of l848-49
The streets OF the city are more popu-
lous than at any time in the preceding
three weeks. The church services were
attended by about every decently
dressed person in the city. The
churches could not hold the
throngs, snd hundreds of per-
persons stood on the church doors, or
under the church windows, listening to
the prayers for the abatement of the
plague. Sunday afternoon persons were
promenading, and few took their old
places at the cafe windows. The whole
appearance of the people is changed
There was little laughing and no loud
talking among the promenaders. Every
body was dressed in black or in the
most subdued colors. No children were
in the Kinderspielplatz and in the
parks hardly carriage could be seen.
In the streets of the borbor district, the
misery of the lower classes was painfully
The children playing in the
cutters were spiritless and hungry.
many of the women were fearful and
the men, were sullen or aggressively
The plague is reported to be
as virulent as ever in the suburbs in I;
Barmebeck and Alsterd, rf but to be
abating elsewhere.