People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — RAVAGES OF A PLAGUE. [ARTICLE]

RAVAGES OF A PLAGUE.

la China Disease la Carrying Off People by Tens of Thousands. Shanghai, June 18. —No brief communications on the subject can convey an adequate idea of the character and extent of the visitation which’ is rav aging Canton, Paklios and Hongkong. The disease has long been raging in the two first-named places, and it has carried off tens of thousands of victims in the last few weeks. It reached Hongkong last week. The plague, which is described by medical men assimilar in appearance and symptoms to “the great plague of London,” which devasted that city in 1665, was noted first in Canton toward the end of April. The disease is accompanied by terrific fever, the temperature going at a bound up to 105 and 106 degrees. Up to May Bat least 60,000 people have died in Canton. All the immense business of the city was at a standstill, and the inhabitants who could do so were flying to the country. The plague reached Hongkong about May 8, and already forty deaths a day are recorded.