St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-05
200 ARE UNBURIED.
The Death List Is Still Reach
ing Appalling Figures in
Hamburg.
So Many Die the Dead Wagons
Are Unable to Handle
Them.
The Total Number of Deaths
Up to Date Is Over
$500.
No Signs Of an Abatement Of
the Plague in the Striek-,
en- City.

HAMBURG, Sept. 4.-This has been a
cool autumnal day. There has been
cool breeze since l O'Clock this after
noon. The sky has been clOudless ami
the sun has tempered the air agreeably.
Ordinarily on such day the streets are
filled with promenaders and the waters
are darkened by smgll pleasure boats or
excursion steamers. The illness, how
ever, has been as dirge the last five
days, almost unbrOken, and in the har-
Dor hardly dozen boats were to
be seen moving at three O'clock.
The fresh cases of cholera dis
covered today number $50; the
dea tbs number 217. Compared with yes
terdaY the decrease In the number of
cases is seventy y-eight, and of the NUM-
Der of deaths thirty-slX. There is much
loose official talk to the effect that the
worst is over; that the plague is aDat-.
ing, and that the people are recovering
from their panic. This talk is echoed
by the newspapers. 1t would be diff
cult to name any specific sign of return
ing confidence among the people, and
the mortality from the plague in the last
two days certainly gives little basis for
it. The sudden rise of tie mortality
from POI Friday to 313 yesterday showed
how
Vain Were the Hopes
aroused by the slight abatement of the
plague and the fact that the average of
cases of yesterday and today is larger
than at any previous time shows con-
clusively that the disease is at least not
losing its hold. Despite professions of
confidence, moreover, the authorities
have been busy providing increased fa-
clities for treating cholera patients.
and today an Orphanage refitted as a
hospital and eight cholera barracks
have bee opened. Detectives have
been placed at all railway stations and
orders for more dead wagons have been
sent out by the health officers. About 200
bodies were still unburied at o'clock
this evening. With the number of dead
wagons, however, these bodies can be
Inferred, together with those of fresh
victims within the next twenty-four
hours, unless the plague should spread
more rapidly than now seems probable.
The procession of dead wagons and
hearses through the streets has become
appalling. From every corner dozen
may be seen in five minutes, and the
roads to the cell atery are almost coll
tinually lined. No signs of returning
confidence are shown. Hotels remain
empty,
Shops Remain Closed.
Most of the houses look as if they had
been shut for the fall Prof. Koch is
expected to return to duty OH Tuesday
to proceed further with his lnve stigation
of the course of the plague, and 10 con-
suit with the municipal authorities and
sanitary officers. 1t is understood that
he will make an exhaustive report TO
the emperor on the condition of the city
and the measures of the authorities to
combat the disease. The inefficiency
OF the authorities is known to have pro-
duced painful impression in Berlin.
and they are considered at the capital to-
be criminally responsible for the spread
of the contagiOn to many North German
towns. 1t is reported that the Emperor
William addressed to them a rescrlpt,
in which he reviews briefly the
course of the plague in this City
and in uneQulyOcal terms lays the
blame for the city's suffering at their
door. To the people of Hamburg such
rescript would be welcomed. as the
classes against the city government is
intense. Reports from Kiel, Lubbock
and Bremen tonight state that no fresh
cases have been found in these cities.
In all three cities the sky is clear and
the air cool. The ambulances of the
city yesterday took to the hospitals 325
cholera patients. of whom 1917 died.
Five hundred and twenty-eight cholera
cases and S29 deaths not previously re-
ported were registered yesterday i'll
pursuance of police orders. This
brings the total figures, reckoning from
the beginning of the epidemic, up to
5,62S cases and 2,51S deaths.