People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — PLAGUE AND STARVATION. [ARTICLE]

PLAGUE AND STARVATION.

Ironwood Hospital Full of Typhoid Fever Patients-Thousands of Miners Idle. . Bessemer, Mich., July 10.—The situation at Ironwood continues- to grow worse. None of the infected city water is used, bet new cases appear regularly. Wells have been ordered closed and pure water is imported from Ashland and Milwaukee. The hospital and armory are full of typhoid fever patients and school buildings must be used for the same purpose. Added to the horrors of the plague, 3,000 miners are idle and the city and county poor 5 funds are exhausted. Five hundred persons are now living on public or private bounty and thousands more are on the verge of requiring charity to buy food.