The morning times., 1897-01-17

and Caesarea. Tartary, Mcsopotamia,
Syria, and Armenia, and other Asiatic
countries are described as being covered
with dead bodies. Five hundred died daily
in Aleppo. and % 900 people and most of
the animals died in six weeks in GAIA.
Cairo lost daily, when the pestlence was
at It's height, from o 900 to 1000
Following are figures given in "a treatise
on the Black Death by Dr.. j. F. G. Hecker,
Of Berlin, an acknowledged authority, of
the mortality in "a number of European
cities:
fIoTSilCt .-.............-... ou,UUO
venice .-......-........... 1Oo,OOO
Marselles, in one month. $4,000
Siena ..........-............. 10000
Paris Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
st. Denys Observation-Disclosures. IA 900
Ayignon OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10000
Strasbourg ........................ $1,000
Lubbock NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5000
Basle Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Erfurt, at least Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Weimar Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Limburg Observation-Disclosures. $500
London, at least .................. 100000
Norwich ..................,.... 61,o0U
To which mayb added
Franciscan Friars, in Germany. 1o1 ,434
Minorities in Italy ly.............. 10000
DR.. Hecker goes on to say:
This short catalogue might, by
laborous and uncertain calculation, de-
duced from other sources be easily further
multiplied, but would still fail to give a true
picture OF the depopulation which took
place. Lubbock, at that time the Venice OF
the North, which could no longer contain
the multitudes which flocked to it, was
thrown into such CONSERVATION on the eruo-
ton OF the plague that the citizens de-
stroyed themselves as If in frenzy. Mer-
chants whose earnings and possessions
were unbouaded, coIdly and willingly re-
nounceu their earthly goods. They car
rled their treasures to mona Steries and
churches and laid them at the foot of the
altar; but gold had no charms forthemonks,
for it br ought them death. They shut their
gates; yet, still II was cast to them over
the convent walls. People would brook no
impeachment to the last pious work to
which they were driven by despair When
the plague ceased men thought they We're
still wandering among the dead, SO ap-
palling was the liyid aspect of the sur
vivors, in consequence of the anxiety they
had undergone and the unavoidable infec-
tion Of the air. Many other cities probably
presented similar appearance, and it is
ascertalned that a great number of small
country towns end villages, which have
been estimated, and not too highly, at
200, 900, we're bereft of all their inhabi-
tants.
In many places in France not more than
two out of twenty of the inhabitants were
left alive, and the capital felt the fury of
the plague, alike in the palace and the
cot TWO queens, one bishop and great
numbers of ether distinguished persons
fell sacrifice to it, and more than 500
day died in the Hotel Dieu, under the
faithful care of the reli gious women, whose
disinterested courage, in this age of hor-
ror, displayed the most beautiful traits of
human virtue. For although they lost their
lives, evidently from conta gion, and their
numbers were several times renewed there
was still no want of fresh candidates. who,
strangers to the un-ChriStian fear of death,
piously devoted themselves to their holy
calling.
he churchyards were soon unable to
contain the dead, and many houses, left
without inhabitants, fell to ruins. In Avig-
non, the pope found it necessary to con-
thrown into the river without delay, as
the churchyards would no longer hold them;
so likewise in all populous cities extraor-
dinary measures were adopted, in order to
speedily dispose Of the dead. In Vienna.
where for some time 1,200 inhabitants
died daily, the interment of corpses in the
churchyards and within the churches was
forthwith prohibited, and the dead were
then arranged in layers, by thousands, in
six large pits outside the city, as had al
ready been done in Cairo and Paris. Yet
still many were secretly buried, for at all
times the people are attached to the con-
secrated cemeteries of their dead and will
not renounce the customary mode Of in
terment. In many places it was rumored
that plague patients were buried alive, as
may sometimes happen through senseless
alarm and indecent haste, and thus the
horror of the distressed people was every
where increased. In Erfurt, after the
churchyards We're filled, 10000 corpses
We're thrown into eleven great pits, and
the like might, more or less exactly be
stated with respect to all the larger cities
Funeral ceremonies, the last consolation of
the survivors, were everywhere impractical
BILE.
In all Germany. according to probable
calculation, there seem to have died only l..
244. 34iDhabitants:t this country, however,
was more spared than others: Italy. on the
contrary, was most severely visited. 1t is
sal j to havelost half sinha bitants. and this
account is rendered credible from the inn
mense loss OF individual cities and prov
inces, for in Sardinia ana Corsica, according
to the account OF the distinguished FIoren