The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-02-08
At Hardin in Effort to
Check the Plague.
THE FROZEN EARTH PREVENTS
Burial of Bodies - Chinese
Bitterly Oppose Work
of Cremation.
ONES DIE SUDDENLY

epidemic of plague was demonstrate
ed to-day when the Foreign Office
authorized DR.. WI, in charge of the
native city of Hardin, to burn 1000
collins containing corpses of plague
victims.
Owing to the fact that the earth is
frozen, these were not buried, and it
is believed that they contributed to
the spread of the disease.
Efforts were made to dig NAM
moth trenches with dynamite. This
plan, however, is not feasible. In
view of the bitter prejudice of the
Chinese against cremation,it was not
possible to adopt this extreme meas
ure until the arrival of heavy mill
tary re-enforcements.
Reports from Mukden state that
out of ISL cases 92 died within "a
hours after the first symptoms.
DIR. ]. Chabanoix, an eminent
French professor of the Imperial
Medical College at Tien-Tsin, who is
in charge of the quarantine station
at Shan-Hai-Kwan, telegraphs as fol-
lows:
The plague is wholly of the pneu-
monia type, marked by initial vio-
lence. The bacillus is of the char
acteristic dumbbell shape. 1t is not
propagated by rats or fleas. It's
transmission is like that of influen-
"a, by direct contact with execrations
or indirect through the air by wet
particles few yards around the
patient. There have been no anthem
ticated recoveries. 1t is as yet inn
possible to say what measure of i'm
munity is conferred by Haffkine's
serum"
1t is estimated that the number
of deaths from the epidemic in
Northern Manchuria is at least l.
900 daily.
Twenty-Five physicians and II as
sistants have succeeded in fairly
the spread of the disease in
Russian Hardin, but the Chinese city,
Fuchiatian, is practically a city Of
the dead. There have been upward
of 1000 victims. OF the 10000 in
habitants less than half remain, all
those who were able to fee having
done so.
Soldiers now form a Gordon
around Fuchiatian. The spirit of
resistance of the remaining inhabi-
tants is completely crushed. They
are stolidly awaiting their fate.
Preparations are being made to
burn one thousand collins which
remain unburied. Many. of them
have burst open, and dogs are feed
ing on the protruding bodies. Sol
diers are now killing all dogs.
Rows of houses have been burned.
Tonight it is believed that practical
ly the whole city must be destroy
ed.
In the Russian and Chinese cities
bodies are still carried surreptitious-
ly from the houses and cast into the
streets or vacant lots, the inmates
concealing the deaths from the
plague through fear of the removal
of the suspects to isolation camps,
which is regarded as certain death.
The suddenness of the disease is
an appalling feature. A number of
instances are cited in which men
who came to the isolation camps in
the morning for inspection as sus-
poets, and showed absolutely no
SYMPTOMS. were seen to be tagging
behind the line one moment amt
then dropped dead before medical
assistance could reach them.
Or. Jackson. who died at Muk-
den. arrived in China four months
MO from Liverpool. where he had e
OIillidnl COlleee NfItbI. ne NolVIl-
feered to superintend the segrega-
lion of Chinese coolies arriving on
The three railways. for be realized
that thew could not be safelv left m
physiciaps. He died 80
hours after his first chill.
Hafkine's syrUp has proved to be
no protection. II is now realized
hat the only possible safeguard is
From Mukden northward all
japanese and Chinese sta
ion guards and police and manv of
he Chinese resemble shrouded foot
oall players, with their white ghost
ike robes and medicated gauze
masks covering the nose and mouth.
Sometimes their costumes resem-
Die those of sea divers. consisting
If rubber boots. white trousers and