The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-25
BLACK DEATH.
Vienna In Terror at the Out
break of BubOnic Plague.
All Who Fooled With the Bac-
terra Fall Victims.
A FRENCH SAVANT
From the Pasteur Institute Ar
rives With Serum
To Make an Attempt to Stop
the Plague.
ALL THOSE WHO DIE
Are Wrapped in Sheets Satur-
ated With Chemicals.
1920 EurOpe's Last Vista
tiOn of Black Death
10000 People Died of 1t at
MarseilleS.
To Make an Attempt to Stop
the Plague.
ALL THOSE WHO DIE
Are Wrapped in Sheets Satur-
ated With Chemicals.
1920 EurOpe's Last Visita-
tiOn of Black Death
10000 People Died of 1t at
MarseilleS.

Vienna. Oct. 25.@The plague situation
continues extremely critical, the death
of DR.. Mueller, who attended Herr Bar
isch. the surgical assistant to Professor
Nothnagle's meteorological establish
ment. who died-increasing the already
great alarm. Fear is now widely ex-
pressed that the city cannot be saved
from the plague.
DR.. Marmout, the head of the Pas
teur institute in Paris has arrived with
two Iitters of plague serum and all the
suspects have been inoculated.
Most extraordinary precautions have
been taken to prevent infection from the
dead and sick. Mueller, when dying,
was attended by DR.. Poeeh and sisters
of charity. After death the body was
syvathed in a saturated sheet and a cOf-
fin was pushed through the door In
this the body was laid, the lid screwed
down by Poech, and the coffin pushed
out again and placed in a metal case.
The father, mother. brother and priest
must view the ceremonies from dis
tance and Will not be allowed to ap-
proach the grave.
The latest bulletin describes Nurse
Pecha's condition as worse and that Of
doctors fear all will succumb.
As told previously it was in Professor
NothnagIe's meteorological laboratory
that a man caught the bubOnic plague.
Dr. Mueller recently returned from
Bombay. where he studied the plague
and brought with him some of the bac-
alli. He cultivated the bacilH and Pro-
fessor Nothnagle and he have been ex-
perimenting with them on lower ami
mails with a view of obtaining a serum
with which to inoculate against the
plague.
The man Barisch was a servant in the
laboratory. which he kept clean. He
also fed the dogs. cats, rabbits and gui-
nea pigs on which Professor NothnagIe
experimental with the plague .bacilH
When Barisch was taken i'll he Vas re-
moved to the Vienna general hospital,
where the physicians, learning his last
and dangerous occupation, isolated him.
Dr. Mueller then attended Barisch.
When BariSch died a archaeological
examination proved him victim to the
dread disease which NOthnagle and Mu-
eller were studying to prevent, for the
plague bacilt were found in Barisch's
stomach.
The bubonic plague, or the "black
DEATH" ravaged one-tenth part of India
in the winter and spring of 1S96-'97. In
Bombay city, from October 2, 1896. to
April Is. 1887, the official records place
deaths at 1862. So the percentage of
recOveries was exceedingly small.
Europe was no stranger to the "black
death in years gone by. In the year
134S 100000 died of this plague in Ven
Ice, leaving hardly enough inhabitants
to carry on Venetian industry.
The same year so, 900 died of the
plague in Florence. a third of the pop
ulatiOn of England perished. and the
country did not make up for the victims
of this uncomfortable plague until the
latter part of the reign of Elizabeth
In 1920 a ship from the Levant took
the plague to Marseilles, and $4,000 in
habitants fell before it
Ten years later the same disease al
most depOpulated Moscow. while toward
the end of the eighteenth century Fgvpt
ana Morocco lost more than l, 600 900 in
ha b1tants. 1t was this plague that was
mentioned in BOccaccio's 'Decameron- -
To the readers OF English fiction it
viii be recognized as the disease which
hlled the loathsome charnel houses Of
Florence, as described in Lytton's ri
enzi."