Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — Sad State of Affairs in Virginia. [ARTICLE]

Sad State of Affairs in Virginia.

Information received from McDowell •ounty is to the effect that a dreadful state of affairs exists in that portion of Virginia. The drought aas made the waters very low, and the peculiar disease which several times previously followed this state of affairs, and which is supposed to be a result of minerals in the water, has broken out. There are over one thousand cases with thirty deaths. Not a family has escaped. Crops are neglected and farm-wora is at ‘ a stand-still. It requires the entire time of every person able to labor to care for the sick and dead. It is estimated that two hundred people have died in McDowell county alone in the past four weeks from the disease.