The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-28
CHOLERA CRISIS IN RUSSIA
COAL SUPPLY AFFEITFD RI
THE DISEASES SPREAD.
Many Miners Attacked IN the Great Goa,
Field On south Russia ~ sis.,.
DietAtor Appointed ~rn.ri~ss N.,,
OF the Panirstrirkrn Peasant.


| ST. PETERSBURG. Aug ihere is
panic among tho miners in Russia Ers,,
coal field along the Donetz Basin m III.
Kharkof and Ekaterinoslav provinoa.
Cholera has invaded their hut VILLAGE,
with such fury that In a week. acCordIns
to a report furnished To a conference -
the mining industry summoned h~car..
| Of the crisis. ?. go persons were attacked
with the disease. and ESQ. or a. per
cent. died. Even these figures are r.
% ried as an understatement, A. there Il
no accurate system OF registering cholera
victims. and the figures do not include
the population living in the Villages
around the mines but not working IN
them
In the same week 1900 miners aed
from the district. either to- their home
villa yes or tn offer themselves as harves,
hands. In eighteen Of the mines the out
put has fallen from % To 20 per cent. Tha
supply Of coal to the railroads IL shrink.
ing.
SO grave il the situation that the Russian
Government has placid the entire Done,s
region under a -hygirnic dictature' II
is as IL martial law wak enforced againss
cholera as the enemy. and powers Wers
given To one man 10 override all existing
laws In his fight The stan OF the dicta-
tor 81 hygiene Ii furnished by the Red
Cross. As a reserve the imperial treasury
places its funds at the dictator's disposal.
Apart from the hygienic situation, ths
cholera has prccipitated an economic
crisis in south Russia. Hoping IN aver Z
panic. the officials neglected To report the
Ia III
no compulsory registration and no special
medical service TO combat the spread n
the disease. The provincial Governor
was not informed OF it's scope or did no,
act on his information; IL was not until thu
miners themselves hed in thousands and
the coal supply fell on that the country Al
large learned Of the mortality.
As in st. Petersburg. the machinery II
local government has failed in fighting
the cholera. In consequence the central
Government has taken charge. The pro-
vincial treasures are ordered To furnish
the money asked for by the cholera die
tator sent down by the Government.
The panic Of the Russian peasants over
tho spread OF the cholera has provoked
extraordinary scenes. In kharkon they
surrounded and captured the Govern
ment's land surveying party. who were
measuring the depths OF the wells in con-
nection with the new farm distribution
scheme, and wanted to lynch them 40
cholera spreaders.
One Of Russias chief botanists. Prot
Won Oettingen. with q number Of students.
including two women. was captured ana
isolated for over forty eight hours In a
sheepfold. The party were gathering
specimens when the peasants began 20
display a menaciEs interest in them.
crowd Of men and woman surrounded
them and demanded what they were
doing.
The professor sought in vain TO reassura
them. The mob seized his photograph
apparatus. plates. microscopes and her
tarium and proceeded 20 strip them all to
find the bottle with the cholera II
took a police search party from KieH io
trace their whereabouts and secure their
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