The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04
|fuation in Russia More Alarm
ing Than at Any Previous
Time.
)AL FAMINE IMMINENT
4 AND DISTRESS THREATENS
and Duchess Elizabeth De-
kotes Life to AmelioratiOn of
I Terrible Conditions.
BY GEORGE FRASER.
able to The Tribune.

3cial Cable to The Tribune.
II. PETERSBURG. Sept, S.-The chol-
situation steadily grows more alarm
Already the figures show that there
5e been more than 10000 deaths from
plague and new points of injection
reported daily. The best estimates
place the number of cases al 6b,OoU
! the death rate has so far been fully
per cent.
he output of coal in the Donctz re-
h has been reduced by Go per cent.
/ partial paralysis of railway and
11strial operations has set in, The iS-
ance OF the peasants, coupled with. the
ful lack OF proper medical and SAM
y Organization, makes the task OF cop
/ with the unprecedented epidemic
I-nigh desperate.
,rofessor Roin and numerous medi-
staff have gone south, with instruc-
rs from the government to take every
1sure 10 arrest the progress OF the
)Iera, especially in the colicry dis
It's. The action is somewhat tardy.
b Epidemic has already laid low 1000
ners, and thousands of others nave
TO their homes, spreading contaglon
fhc villages in the central and south
zones.
he Novoe Vremya depicts the situa-
In the gloomicst ColorS. 1t fears
4 cholera riots on large scale VIII
e place. The local authorities have
reed severe pains and penalties Tor
cealmenl Of cases, or Tor oiicrlng re-
|ance to tlIe sanitary detachment (.
rerthelcss the lives OF the doctors and
'ses are in constant peril for the be-
hted peasants are persuaded that they
u the germs of the disease. The NO
n Vremya points ont that agriculture
snffering severely because of lack of
IDS 10 harvest tho crops and convey
grain To the railways. \ coal famine
Imminent. Empty trucks are accum-
hing AT waysidc stations. Prices are
idly rising.
j Touching account of the life OF a
1cess devoted 10 the cause Of human
Mill be published in a few days. deal
with the tragic history Of the Grand
hess Elizabeth. wife Of the late
nd Duke SerGius Of Russia. Grand
HESS Elizabeth is \ sister Of the
ming grand duke OF Hcssc, and also
the czarina. Her husband was as
4Iuafrd in the streets oi Moscow on
jruary Il. 1905. being shattered by a
b Thrown at him. The grand duchess,
y was I'm the palace. hardly a stone s
oW away and hcarC the explosion,
lied through her woman'S instinct its
1ible import. rushed TO the spot. and
lid her husbands mutilated body ly-
.fwhere it had hccn.
! Id duchess withdrew from all the gal
n of life. and set TO work Ia anchor
1.-THE sufferIngs OF the masses of the
-nl1fion In her adopted country. She
4founded hospitals and nursing homes
a all sorts OF institutions for similar
,,poses. she herself directs operations.
4 devotes eight TO ten hours day 10
flaborous work Of experimenting the
5rent branches of her charitable sc-
~ ri whole
7her Immense income, amounting ap-
rklmately to sos. 900, TO the cause ot
irity, and the suffering poor in and
ind Moscow and in the vicinity of
5rai of her estates in other parts Of
rsfa have learned to regard her as a
Zig saint
fot content with directing operations.
: also participates In the active work
.1er various institutions. Sometimes
works as a nurse. sometimes as a
.,ior TO the poor. sometimes she at
lis as a domestic servant the dnsti-
) harbored in her refugees Tor aged
3ers. On such occasions she dopS the
aE OF nurse or servant and performs
Unnecessary duties without revealing
,lidentity TO the inmates Of the diff
l,ut homes. In many cases the other
.1cs or members Of the staff have been
Marc OF her identity. SO that in this
~ she has convinced herself of Tho
Else inner workings Of the institu-
-, and has revealed breaches Of dis
r'ne and good conduct on the part oi
4 stnfts. especially with regard Ia the
<tment of the patients.
f1e book dealing with the Grand
hess EliZabcth's life will he a most
hing human document-the story oi
s<seIf- sacrifice OF a noble woman who,
" experiencing the most poignantly
rteivable grief. decided 10 devote the
slinder OF her life TO the allcviation oi