People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — FAMINE AND CHOLERA. [ARTICLE]

FAMINE AND CHOLERA.

Russian Peasants Dying Like Flies from Hunger and Disease—Finlanders Starving. London, Dec. 28.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Standard says that a British consul who has visited the famine districts of Kieff, Bessarabia, Khartoff, Khoursk, Kazan, Orel, Tula and Vorenesh reports that the peasants are dying like flies from hunger and disease. There are no signs of relief from the horrors of the hard winter. In Sebastopol he learned from a trusty source that cholera is raging on the Circasian shores. Hundreds of deaths have been reported in the last fortnight. A dispatch from Paris to the Standard states that there are four cases of Asiatic cholera in Dunkirk.

Stockholm, Dec. 28.—The famine in north Finland is increasing, and there is a movement in Sweden to renew the subscriptions of last year for the aid of the starving Finlanders. Many villages are snowbound and it is feared that whole communitieshave perished, as nothing has been heard from them for a number of days.