The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-24

he could attribute to the course of this
plague in his system.
He set down his temperature, his pulse,
his mental change and described in detail
every pain that he felt. His last entry was
made only fifteen minutes before he died,
and his death and that Of the heroic nurse.
who had served with him, were within an
hour OF one another.
Dr. Muller was able 10 give the physi-
clans who attended him oerjain warnings
which he seems o have neglected in his
own case. At ali events, the phys clans
who attended him end the nurse. though
understand ng wen he appalling risk they
ran, foll5Wed his instruct S and escap d
unscathed from the contagion. These two
deaths were The only ones that occurred
in Vienna. DIT. Mueller's Instruct ons AS 10
quarantine, sanitation, disinfectan S We're
absolutely followed out so that after the
lapse of thirty days not another case was
reported.
II was with a most significant and all
most pathetic gesture and tone of voice
that DR.. Kraus said to-day that n a case
like that just OUTSIDE our quarantine lines.
physicians take their lives in Their hands
and expose themselves to one Of the mar
tyrdoms of their profess on.
story of the Plague.
Adonlram jones' who is one Of the arch.
fleets of Central Park, sGpplem anted some
of DR.. Kraus' remarks by narraCns an
experience Of his own Two Or thu e
years ago he with another architect, re-
celved q commission to restore al OH
church in Wales. The Church Hwas oder
than any tradition. No one knew when it
was built, but it was certainly there at the
time of the royal Henries, and il hsd a
flourishing cougreea ion when The great
plague was devastating Great Britain.
Mi Jones and his associate upon ex-
aiming the church, discovered that there
was barely room enough between the
floor and the ceiling for person 90
stand erect, and on examination they
found that the pillars that supported the
| dome and the ceiling extended through the
, floor. II seemed to them, therefore, as
though this floor had been constructed
for some peculiar reason over the original
floor Workmen were sent for who tore
up the flooring and discovered between II
loose earth.
After digging through that the spade
turned up vast quantities of human bones.
1t seemed a veritable Golgotha. Some ten
feet below the flooring that was torn up
was discovered the original flooring OF
stone, into which the bases of the pillars
were set. They were exquisite specimens
of architectural pillar work, but they had
been buried beneath this soil end these
| bones for many years.
The people of the village raised a great
cutlery when they discovered that these
bones were exposed. They came forward
with traditions that the records seemed
to verify of the prevalence of the black
DEATH" or bubonic plague In that village
sweeping away scores of its inhabitants.
1t being impossible to bury them, the dead
were brought to this church and loose
earth thrown over their bodies, and there
must have been several hundred buried in
that way.
After the scourge passed away the viii
lage people fioored over this rude though
consecrated burial place, and after many
years had passed forgot what was be-
meath that flooring And yet the traditions
of the horrors of the plague in that village
were so great that the moment Mr.. Jones
and his associates began to disturb this
great burial place, the villagers protested,
fearing that the germs of the disease were
still in that soil, and would be set free
by uncovering the earth.
Mr. Jones explained 10 them that the
earth itself was the greatest of disin-
fectants and germ destroyers, and that
the lapse of 800 years since these bodies
ere placed in there was sufficient to re-
move all chance of danger But the viii
layers could not be pursuaded until ar
rangements were made to renter these
bones beneath the original stone flooring
of the church. This was done without
any one suffering from illness by treason
of the exposure of all that was left of
the great company that had died from
the plague in that village 800 years before.