The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-20
CHoLERA INvApEs PERSIA.
Additional Details OF the Savage Riot
at Ssratoff.

at Ssratoh.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.-It is semi
officially stated that the plague has broken
out in the province of KhorassAn, Persia.
The Noresti urges the necessity for au inter
national agreement to stamp out the dis
ease aud to save Europe from the conta-
gion.
An order has been issued by the ministry
of the interior requiring every person who
leaves the cholera-infected districts to be
provided with certificate OF good health.
Sanitary inspection is proceeding IN the
workshops and factories in ell the populous
oenters of the empire.
A decree has been promulgated ordering
that imports Of cotton, wool and similar
merchandise from Asia be thoroughly dis
infected, and prohibiting the importation OF
skins and vegetables.
The following official cholera returns are
published:
July l7-Astrakhan, 2s7 cases. 1872 deaths
Saratoff, 100 new cases, 78 deaths; Samara,
Sc new cases, IS deaths; Kazan, new cases.
1death.
July 16-Tssritsin, 1874 new cases,
deaths.
July 15-Rostoff, So new cases, IL deaths
Azoff, 1S new cases, 9 deaths.
Up to July 1S-Voronesh. new cases, 2
deaths; at station on the Voronesh- -Rostot
railway, 81 new cases and 20 deaths.
DIMINISHING AT PARIS.
PARIS, July 19.-The outbreak of cholera
In the suburbs Of this city is apparently di-
minishing To-day only three fresh cases
we're reported in Aubervilliers ana two in
st. Denis.
QUARANTINE AT GIBRALTAR.
GIBRALTAR, July 1910 prevent the in
av ob, harm xvaakis
antine will be imposed on vessels arriving
from the Black sea and tho Sea OF AzoH.
Steamers coaling alongside hulks will not
be detained.
sARAroFF's SAVAGE RIOT.
LONDON, July 20, A. M.-The Berlin
correspondent of the Daily Ne0s says:
tThe Russian minister Of the interior has
prohibited the sale Of the st. Petersburg
Gazette owing TO its publishing true ac-
counts OF the cholera epidemic and denying
the official versions. The SzdrtLtstck pub
fishes details of the Saratof riots. IL
states that the popuiace, infuriated
by hearing that the reports OF cholera were
In ented by doctors, only waited for pre-
text TO riot. In the first place young man
mistaken for Il doctor was attacked, and
when friend tried to protect him both
were stoned 70 death, their bodies being
horribly mangled. The mob then spread
over the city, wrecking the hospitals. the
houses of doctors, hotels and apothecary
shops and releasing the cholera
patients from various places in which Trey
were confined and nurses were cruelty
beaten by the mob and deadly attacks were
made on the hospital attendants aud sur
Reons. The Imperiled men begged for
mercy on their knees. but the mob was pitt
less and killed all whom they could find.
SAVED BY PRIESTS.
zone doctor took refuge in the belfry Of
a church, and the mob wero only prevented
from entering the building and killing him
by the priests standing in the doors OF the
church, holding alott cruoi6xes and loudly
exhorsing the maddened people TO desist.
A man dressed as a cholera patient and
covered with lime then appeared and
told the excited crowd that he had
Just escaped from hospital whore
they wanted to bury him alive.
The mob thereupon rushed about like
fanatics to do further mischief, and the
condition Of affairs grew so serious that
troops were summoned. The people stoned
the soldiers, who fired several volleys into
their midst, killing or woundIng many of
thom. Troops were then distributed
throughout the town. The cathedral was
guarded with cannon, and the town had
the appearance OF u military camp"
A lady of Bakeu writes as follows:
'Asiatic cholera is raging here, and 300
persons are dying daily Naphtha is being
literally sprinkled about the streets as a
disinfeotant. The stores and shops have