The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-01
THE ASIATIC TERROR.

| LONDON, June 90 The Chronicles st
| petersburg correspondent says: 1T IS re-
! ported that cholera has appeared at Tsar'
| iizin on the Volga. If the report is true
| the scourge Is almost certain to ravage tne
| Iamine-Strickeu provinces VI. tadaJeH,
| assistant minister of communication. has
! been sent to TsaritZin and Colonel Nender
| Ichs, who did excellent service in resior-
| ing order on the Russian railways during
| the famine. has been dispatched 10 Iltiis
with full authority to adopt all measures
| 70 arrest the spread OF cholera
The Teheran correspondent of the Times
says that news from Meshed, capital OF
| the province of khorassan, is that there is
a continued decrease in the number OF
! deaths from cholera at that place. The
average death rate in Meshed Is now
| officially stated to he twenty-five daily
The previous official report placed the
| average number of deaths per day at
! thirty five, this being very large de-
crease from the number given in the pre-
ceding report.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF the
Gazette, detailing the spread OF the cholera
epidemic, says: ''On June 20 thirty hye
more patients entered the hospital at
Baku. OF these persons eighteen died and
two recovered. There are eighty-fOur
persons still affected with the disease. Six
Of those stricken with the malady died in
Sarakhs, where the cholera first appeared
from Persia, the epidemic is stationary.
Three cases have appeared at Shusha, near
the Turkish frontier. between Baku and
Tif1ls." Commenting on unnecessary and
vague details in the official reports, the
correspondent says:
''The public might well wish a more
choice statement. So far reports make 4
total of 374 deaths out of 512 persons at
tackled over wide area during the month
or June If the figures are reliable they
are not very alarming, and the low mortal
lty may be attributed to the absence OF
large towns except Baku, in the vast region
affected. | learn on the best authority
that there has not been single
case yet either in Batoum or Tiflis
Another official authority informs
me Of the strange fact that there were no
fresh cases throughout the Trapscaspian
region III four or five days preceding last
Sunday when six We're announced. Inc
strangeSt feature of all is the fact that
there has not been single case in Bohura,
or in The dirty teeming capital, which is
only two miles from Russian railway
station where two soldiers died of the dis
ease. This immunity is ascribed TO the
sanitary measures taken by the Ameer
since December under Russien advice and
supervision. The ameer being anxious to
pay Il long projected visi; o he car, WAS
willing To adopt any measures suggested,
and the visit will probably occur shOrtlv.
The Russians blame the English in India
as the indirect cause OF the epidemic III
permitting the disease to enter Russia.
The English are accused of emitting any
effectual pressure to Induce the north
western frontier peoples, notably the
Afghans, to adopt proper measures of isola-
tion and sanitation.
"a gentleman from Central Asia relates
that the cOrpses of victims of the 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. 1t is absurd
10 blame us as 1t would be for US to blame
Russia for building the Central Asian
railway. which has been the direct means
of introducing the present outbreak"
. VIENNA, June 3U.-Th. governments of
Germany and Austria are acting in con-
cert in the adoption of measures to pre-
vent cholera from entering their respective
countries. Professor Drasche OF the Vienna
sanitary board, who has been stuuyiug
cholera for thirty years, thinks it improba-
BILE that the disease will spread beyond
Russia, even if it gets foothold there.
He says in other countries bad sanitation
like that which obtains in Russia has be-
come a thing Of the past,