Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — CHOLERA SCARE. [ARTICLE]

CHOLERA SCARE.

Alleged Cholera Death on a Train Near St. Paul. According to the health department, St. Paul, Minn., has had a case of genuine Asiatic cholera. Tuesday night the health department received notification by wire; of the death of one Engelbert Hoog, a German immigrant, on a Soo train from the East. The health department had Commissioner Sinks at the depot when thq train rolled in, and tho corpse was at once removed. Coroner Whitcomb was called and was greatly surprised at the corpse. He called Dr. Hoyt, the chief of tho health department, to assist him in an examination. Both physicians were satisfied that if the ease was not absolutely one of cholera, it still bore such a close resemblance to it that immediate steps must be taken, and therefore ordered the immediate disinfection of the body, and all the baggage accompanying it, and the burial of the former.