The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-08

tiouality could be made among the pa
tients; and the destroying angel was
equally impartial-with the marked dli
ference, that the negroes (wbo were
never numerous in Buenos Ayrcsl were
exempt from the disease. and. therefore
in great request for nurses, at eXorOItaul
prices. Every morning the dlsInfectOr.
visited all the inhabited houses and
sprinkled them with a mixture of coal tar
and chloride OF lime, at the same time
praying, God, keep YOU from the
plague The dead now numbered from
$50 to 500 a day, and the municipal dust
carts were used in removing them. The
weather remained incomparably lovely
in sharp contrast TO the awful tragedies
enacted on all sides.
"BRING OUT THE DEAD
To feel the warm sunshine and refresh
| ing breezes; to look at the clOuiless blue
! Of the sky, the ships swinging at anchor
on the unrChied river, the bright green Of
/ the wooded suburbs and the smiling land
/ scape gay with flowers. one could not be
| ieye that work Of carnage was going on,
more deadly than if hundred cannon
! were bombarding the city. Food ran
/ short, the market people being afraid to
| come 10 with their meat milk and vege-
| tables. Prices rose as if the city were in
a state of siege, and the neigh boring vii
lagos drew a Gordon sanitaire" around,
putting in quarantine anyone who came
out OF Buenos Ayres. All the banks
were closed, and nobody was disposed to
trust his neigh Dor, not knowing how soon
death might liquidRte the debt. The
town clock in the plaza was stopped.
Grass grew in the streets. furnishing
dogs roamed about without owners. An
awful silence reigned, broken only by the
rumble of dust-carts on their gruesome
errands and the cry Of the half-drunken
cartmen: Bring out the dead"
AN ARMY OF GRAVE DIGGERs.
In Holy week a government decree was
offices and other public departments and
ordering all shops TO remain closed for
thirty days, so as to compel the remain
ing inhabitants 10 leave the city. Most
of the railways had stopped running, as
the engine drivers were dead. The new
cemetery, opened in March, was full to
overlooking In six weeks, and the chief
of police seized a farm in the suburbs and
turned it into the same purpose. The
grave diggers, after spreading 100 cart
loads of lime over the graves Of the 26 900
victims in the Corrales cemetery,
marched in body to the new ground.
They were paid enormous wages, and,
being negroes, not one of them died
There were over 300 and they worked
like sailors, in watches of four hours.
Had panic broken out among them no
body knows what would have happened,
for there were no others to take their
places. The greatest number of corpses
were buried on Easter Monday, viz.
,2S0. IL was impossible TO furnish cof-
fms for so many, and the rudest pine box
painted black, with yellow cross on the
hid brought $50 1t was observed that
twice as many men as woman died and
very few children.
"a 900 DEATHS.
During the month of June, when the
death rate had dropped to less than 100 a
day, the people floucl1ed back to the city
in such numbers that the danger Of fam
inc was added to the other terrors
Wealthy families found their houses
stripped Of their costly furniture by boat
men and laundresses; who had ''squattedp
in them-mirrors, chandeliers, pianos,
works of art, of which it was impossible
to obtain any trace. In the streets one
might see men with knives and sticks,
tearing opening the beds and mattresses
that the police were about to burn as in
fictitious, and raking over their contents
in search of money. Large sums
were often found in that way. In
the Plaza Setiembre my friend saw
worse sight, where dust cart,
full of corpses and broken down and
dumped its contents in the road The
dead bodies had their clothes on, Just as
If stricken down in the street. In another
plaza she encountered man selling collins.
He shouted, Boxes for SALE" exactly as
If he were selling peaches A woman
rushed out and bought one, and requested
the manIto wait minute as another person
was dying and a second box would
presently be required. 1t is needless to
say that many persons We're undoubtedly
buried alive. One of the most remark
able escapes, among several have heard
Of, was that of an Italian gentleman
named Gardoni. He recovered his senses
on the brink of the pit into which he
was about to be flung with cart load of
others by first being sprinkled with lime,
as were all the supposed corpses. Some
of the lime got into his eyes and the pain
of it brought him to his senses. On his
way back to the city from the
cemetery he felt so Nj and faint that he
entered "pulperia" (saloon) to get a
little brandy. Having no money to pay
for 1t, as, of course, his pockets had been
rifed, he was obliged to explain his mi
raculous escape from being inferred
among the plague victims, proving his
statement by the lime yet remaining on
his hair and clothes, whereupon all
present were so frightened that they ran
away, leaving him in possession of the
shop.
1t is estimated that fully one-sixth of
the entire population died, or about "a, 900.
But before many weeks the plague was
entirely forgotten, and the foundations of
new opera house were laid i'll Gale Cor
rientes on the site of the saw-mill used
for making collins during the epidemic
FANNIE B. WARD.
The Archbishop OF Canterbury receives a
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