The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-01
DYING BY HUNDREDS.
Wretched People of Hamburg
Give Up in Despair.
DISEASE SPREADING IN LONDON.
Number 81 Deaths Increasing Every.
whore Except in Persia-Up to Aug. -
100000 Victims Perished In Russia.

HAMBURG, Aug. 31.-During the past
twenty-four hours 395 buriais have taken
place. Most of the cholera victims now
claimed are in quarters near the hospital.
Two physicians succumbed today. Four
deaths from Asiatic cholera are reported
from Lubbock. A smallpox epidemic is
raging in Holstein. There are twenty
nine cases there and so in Kiel.
The chamber of commerce has organ
lied relief committee. Cholera victims
are now more frequently than at first per
sons of the middle and upper classes. Dis
Infectants are being supplied gratis to the
poor. There is no question that the present
cholera epidemic is the worst that has ever
visited this city, and every hour the situa-
ton becomes worse. People are dying of
like sheep, and the plague is spreading. It
was thought early yesterday that the cpl
demic was abating in violence. The num-
Der of new cases and deaths reported for
Monday was far below that of the day pre-
ceding. Unfortunately these hopes are
not well founded. 1t was only tempo
rary halt in the onward march of the
plague. 1t is now marching forward and
moving down its victims by the score. A
fearful feeling Of apprehension hangs over
the whole city. The belief that the doc
tors are helpless to fight the scourge
grows in strength. The people feel that
they are helpless in the face of the fearful
visitation that has come on them, and
many of them have given up hope of es-
Gaping the disease. This in itself is q
calamity. for courage is one of the essen
tial factors in fighting the epidemic.
A representative of the Associated Press
has seen in q military drill shed the bo-
dies of 400 victims awaiting burial. Owing
t2red tape formality it is impossible to
bury all the dead under the usual regula-
tions. for the law requires the production
of papers of Identification before the body
is consigned to the grave. Under ordinary
circumstances these papers are easily pro-
durable. but now, when whole families
have been earned off by the scourge, the
greatest difficulty is experienced in getting
the papers. Unless the frightful mortality
abates it will be necessary to shortly set
aside the law and bury the victims as
hastily as possible. Already it is believed
that infection has been spread by the
dead. Bitter imprecations are heaped
upon the authorities for their pig-headed-
to scatter contagion among the living
age, occupation, ETC., of the dead person.
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, the
physicians and those who have nobly
volunteered their services. are doing work
that requires extreme heroism. Every.
hnvn t1Axv I.Nfv, r,4s
and nurses take their lives in their hands
without hope of fame and reward and do
their utmost to alleviate the awful suffer
ings of the plague-stricken victims.
The ordinary form of burial'will soon
have to be abandoned. and trenches filled
with quicklime will have to be resorted to.
In many parts of the city the shops of
or ocers. bakers and butchers have been
closed by the police, the owners and their
statesmen having been stricken down while
attending to business.
The Prussian ministry of war has Or
dered the garrison lazaretto at Altoona to
supply the Hamburg hospitals with 500
beds. Registers who record deaths in the
city will keep their offices open until 10
every night.
During the twenty-four hours ended at
midnight last night the ambulances con-
veyed to the hospitals sos patients. OF
this number 26S have since died.
BERLIN, Aug 3L-The imperial board of
health reports that there were 425 fresh
cases of cholera and PIG deaths at Ham,
burg yesterday. In Berlin there were
three new cases and one death; in Mag
deburg two new cases and one death. Two
isolated cases have occurred in the grand
duchy of Observation-Disclosures and
duchv of Saxe-Oldenburg