Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — March of Pestilence. [ARTICLE]

March of Pestilence.

In the small-pox pestilence of 118? over 1,000,000 died. Plague broke out in London in 962; 50,000 persons died. In 954 “swollen throat” plague destroyed 49,000 lives. First general plague in the world took place B. O. 767. In 1361 a fever in Loudon and Paris caused fearful mortality. About 890 small-pox spread all over Europe and North Africa. Terrible pestilence at Constantinople in 746; 200,000 perished. A long-continued plague in Europe, Asia, and Africa in A. D. 558. “Black mouth” in London In 1094; one-third the population died. In 1172 Henry 11. forced to evacuate Ireland on account of plague. In 1204 Ireland was almost depopulated by famine and pestilence. In Chichester, England, 772, “sore throat” carried off 34,000 people. In A. D. 427, mysterious pestilenoe in Arabia; men’s eyes dropped out. The “black death” appeared in Italy in 1340. Spread all over Europe. In A. D. 250, 5,000 persons died daily at Rome. Total deaths, 1,000,000.