The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-09-26
Disease Is So Deadly That VIC
tins Die Fifteen Minutes
After Attack.
Imperial Family Said TO Have Been
Exposed 10 Plague
A~ehorfsies FORCED 10 Close All sn-
iooas In Order 10 PINT an Fad
/. 70 sospes Thst Arc nsos<
Revoizng.

So}cru WHICH N sWoapfnU buUBiA.
Milling soorcs dairy. has turnsd the
Gpdtai tnsD p>ncs q dnath and. N Is
NV r4rted. tfrensns Tho Snprrsui
Asni,J. Accounting % sfivtsss rom
S1nsand, nsr where TIN suvuG party b
uuassAG thcg hnsS tsn sxpossd %
I'm dkrzuee.
. PSecrs&sng h IN an aprni1fRa
urtKin ana tho popsynmant hps
0ueusncd 10 appix uxzt1ai Rm TN
chcseru has aissndy sxsSdnd-in 0~cr
ny nnd uumbeEe The vfsitnfiun On fSpa.
II h 90 deadly tina p<rvuns afmcAsd
are killed In fifteen mfnuseA The death
nat cor the day WIS 2H2.
The dead lie unbur4ed IN heaps
ssuund tho overvauv1ed dead huuxA
scoh soface I'm Laquor.
Dfstnfectants aye marty sxhsnstni
IN she city and cns pnnSc-sxfchsn ppo-
pss hase tnrned % nery vc<il~ In hopes
az vurding or IN discase. II . q
cpmmon ayt1t In me strcefs fur q
0vvd q drsmxm reyeism %. follow
In 'tsath wasnns- making thsir
eAntst1y ronndz. !, Their yssrS are
mfns1sd win prayers fur de dt4ng.
10 stup these ehGkfu ermes ana
becsuss ths liQoos vas psctsn % b
a sf,f % the dfs@se, General Drnsbefr.
shy. prefect Of 81 pste1sexuv, ms pro.
hsn1esd The sah a AQnm thrInuhru1
a. dty.. Thfs tnclud0 The euRern-
msnt vcdks shups. x
Hospital spare has bssn psact3Uity
cfhA$sted. and the ssrfxn4ties % ths
t1ty. skruueh tho alfern1anzc council.
voted fur an appruptsa<ion o. 100000
81 sdditionni ho~pftni fnciiities. THIS
wus dome after tho government thssat-
ened martial law.
Infection May Follow.
Practically nothing has been dore
mp to the present Do put the city's mar
ket piaces In n sanitary condition; they
arc places OF INDISPENSABLE filth with
the atmosphere reeking with foul
odors. One hundred cnrioads OF fruit
have been auctioned Off and forwarded
to Warsaw, Wilma and other towns
which the cholera has not invaded, and
the possibility OF infection from this
source Is very great
Several plague ships have drifted by
the royal yacht now cruising In the
Finnish archipelago waters IL has
been learned. This entire vicinity Is
now under the strictest quarantine
No news is given out regarding the
Car Of all Russia and his royal con-
sort.
dead" Drivers May Strike.
To add TO the other horrors OF Tie
situation in 81. Petersburg, the drivers
OF the dead wagons" whose nightly
cry Of Bring out your dead" is
familiar echo. have threatened to
strike. They declare that unless they
are slkwed higher wages and shorter
hours they will quit
These men are employed by the mu-
nicipal authorities, and so revolving IL
their task that 1t would he next TO i'm
possible to all their places. IL the
strike ia called II Is believed that pris-
oners chosen from the Siberian squads
will be given the choice Of driving the
wagons which collect the dead from
the plague stricken houses or going 10
the mines.
Cholera at Manila.
At Manila the vigorous cam
paign for the eradication OF cholera Is
believed to be preventing any ap-
probable increase in the spread OF dis
ease. There is an average Of about
fifty new csses daily.
In Official circles II IL maintained
that there Il possibility that the city
may b. ridded OF the cholera before
the arrival Of the American battieship
nect Governor General Smith stated
that while the time intervening was
short, he had considerable hope that
Manila viii he Glenn when tho nect
comv. The campaign instituted by
the authorities agninrt the plague pro
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