People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — YELLOW FEVER AT SANTOS. [ARTICLE]

YELLOW FEVER AT SANTOS.

Vessel from That Port Brings a Tale of Horror. Baltimore, Md., June 26.—The American barkentlne Priscilla, Capt. Klages, arrived from Rio and Santos, after a voyage of 44 days, with a cargo of 14,254 bags of coffee. The Priscilla’s officers report that when she left Santos, May 12, yellow fever was raging on every side, and the scenes in the city and harbor were harrowing. Men were dropping dead in the streets, dying by scores in the city, and on the vessels In port. Some of the vessels had their flags at half mast day after day for weeks, as man after man of their crew’s succumbed to the scourge. The death boat was being rowed about the harbor day and night, from vessel to vessel, collecting the dead and taking them ashore for burial. Some of the vessels had only two men left of their entire crews, and many of them were unable to get away from the port from the lack of men