The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-01-17
PESTILENCE
Black Plague and Fam.
inc in India.
MILLIONS STARVING
Thousands of People Flee in Terror
From the City Of fOmbay.
AN APPALLING DEATH RATE
Emaciated Natives Easy Victims
OF the Scourge-Europe VIII As
sist In Extending Relief-Meas-
ures to Prevent a Spread of
the Disease-A Calamity Awful
In Its Intensity.



Copyright 1897 by Associated Press.
Bombay, Jan. 15,-plapue and famine
are stalking arm i'm arm thrnugb dense.
ly populated portions of ,he Rr,,isb
empire: thousands are dead or dylns.
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however, nave peeh sihsuialiy Tree
from coh'asion' UP 10 the present uine
only tnree daths among tHein pelhg re-
cordn1.
Al karachi, Poena ana Bandra WneIe
large numbers of refugees nave sought
salty. the plague has broken out in the
most threatening form. Al Bandra, for
instance, 129 deaths are recorded out of
$50 cases of the plague. causing con-
sternation among the physicians. In
this city there are thousands of houses
without native servants: nearly all the
latter Joined the fleeing multitudes
EMPLOYERS are helpless because of the
desertion of their clerks and porters,
and stores are closed on account OF tile
almost inter stapnation of business,
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bae haan unnracedented while the
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ordin,,y hiyb nnd above the plague
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