Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — HORRORS OF CHOLERA. [ARTICLE]

HORRORS OF CHOLERA.

The Egyptian med leal, delegate to Mecca gives a horrible account of the condition of pilgrims in that city. The deaths from cholera are double the number officially reported. In the valley of Mouna it is impossible to bury the dead, and the road between Mecca and Moana is strewn with the corpses of pilgrims left to He where they died. In Mecca the lack pf grave diggers has resulted in bodies lying for many days In a state of decomposition before burial. The cholera lias broken out again in the province of klutrson, Russia, and it Is spreading In the vHlages along the Dnelper and DnclsU-r. Tho authorities by stringent measures hope to prevept sjje; plague Itom spreading further.