The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-02-08
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elapsed to Canada and smote citizen
and strangers alike; by the Victoria
bridge lie the dead immigrants and in
the cemeteries Of Montreal the city's
denizens by hundreds. He crossed
Niagara regardless Of bridges and
against the winds, and walked in dark
ness over New York; and he scattered
his deadly arrows by day. Graves
yawned, and swallowed the dead by
thousands. He sent out his deadly
aura to a hundred cities and villages,
and death marked it's hayward
course as it passed. He leapt
the Allegheny chain, ran through the
mountain valleys, fell upon the
people as with choice and distinction;
one was taken and another left. And
now the dread mortality that had al
ready smitten all hearts with fear was
in Cincinnati, 'Queen City of the
Vest
The story of the stricken city is not
for these pages. But of the chap
ters of that fatal history belong also
to this.
When old Molier had gone out into
the stricSen city to learn public senti-
ment, he found the people panic
stricken. He caught the popular tone
despite his self-control. Going home,
he said to Adolf: ST have planned an
excursion for you and Vivette to Gray
Sulphur Springs; be ready in the morn
ing" He said to Vivette; ssYou and
Adolf wished to see Gray Sulphur
Springs; Adolf has decided to take you
there; be ready in the morning" They
also had caught the panic while he was
in the city listening to the cry:
ENTHUSIASTICALLY cases last night,
and spreading"
Adolf made ready with alacrity. He
trembledas he made hurried prepara-
ton.
-Vivette declined to abandon her
father at first; but he would hear no
protests. They were over the ferry
and of for Gray Sulphur Springs by
8 o'clock next morning, travelling in a
carriage with faithful team and expert
enced driver. They feared to go by
steamer via Maysville; cholera was on
the river; and they travelled overland.
Three days later cholera fell upon
the father in the city. His hired nurses
forsook him. He was alone in his
agony.
At a meeting of volunteer nurses a
hundred young men of the best classes
were present; each ready to go wher-
ever help was needed.
cold Charley Molier is dying; his
nurses have fed; who will go to Lower
Market and look after Old Charley?!''
inquired the chairman.
II, for one," said Joseph Gust the
younger.
II, for another, said a second young
man-Isaac Wright by name.
Here are your badges" said the
chairman. ssHe will recognize you as
authorized and official nurses, if he can
recognize anything; if not, it will make
no difference
When the volunteer nurses reached
the store of Molier they found the
valuables locked up in ths vault. the
door closed and a speciaa. policeman on
guard. Money, which could not buy
life, could pay for its own guards.
The officer told them Molier was
alone and dying; but that a ..steam
doctor that was now attending him
had promised to be back in an hour.
Gust knew the house, and entering
the hall with his companion, passed
up the stairs and into Molier's room.
The first thing they observed on
entering was that which they after
ward came to know as '.the cholera
odor." All was disorder in the room;
no woman had been there; the bed was
stripped Of all but a blanket; and roll
ing in agony was a Gust would
not have known him elsewhere. His
eyes were sunken and shone like hot
glass. They were sunk into the sock
ets-now c~up-shaped and purple-and
wandered from side to side, and out
on vacancy. The cheek bones looked
like projecting knots, and the lately
full and rounded cheeks were cavities.
The lips were drawn in and puckered,
and their color livid purple. The whole
face was ~cadaverous, with an express
sion Of despairing agony indescribable.
The skin of the body and especially OF
the hands was shriveled, wrinkled and
deadly cold. 1t was covered every
where with perspiration also icy cold.
At the wrist was a slight thready
twinge, but no distinct ~pulsation.
Dim, blue streaks showed the lines Of
the shriveled veins. The solid flesh
: had disappeared, and the skin was
faced, like q half empty bag. His
breath was cold. and he moaned in q