p. 87 | Another Plague

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 15, 1865

Another Plague

Another Plague.—While the Russian disease has raged with such ferocity in the north of Europe, the south-western part of Asia has been suffering from a terrible visitation of the same kind. The Levant Herald of June 7th, says that letters from Medina give a frightful account of the ravages of the epidemic now raging at that city and Mecca. It takes the form both of typhus and cholera. On the eve of Courban-Beiram, and during the first and second days of the feast, this terrific scourge carried off no less than forty-six thousand victims amongst the pilgrims, and though the intensity of the plague is somewhat abated, multitudes still perish. The inhabitants have fled, and the streets are filled with corpses. Of the Persian pilgrims alone, no less than five thousand have fallen victims, amongst whom is the Sheik Mirza Hachim, who, saint as he was reputed to be, has perished with his whole household, composed of ten persons. Sheriff Abdullah Pacha has taken refuge at Taif, and the Governor General, Vedji Pacha, after having lost a son and daughter, has himself fallen dangerously ill. —Boston Traveler.