Plague Ravages Hamburg City of Death and Desolation
A dispatch reports Hamburg transformed by cholera with deserted hotels, empty cafes, and crowded mortuaries. Hospitals overflow, carriages haul coffins, and grief-stricken families suffer amid a city where travel halts and all public life pauses in fear of the plague.
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Hamscre
Conyright
Europe
Hamburg
Hohenfeld
Ublenhors
Alster
Harvestshade
Dotberbaum
Hotel de l Europe
Alsterdamm
Binnen-Alster
Aussen-Alster
The Hamburger's Diet and Cholera Scare in Hamburg
A Hamburg cholera outbreak prompts strict dietary rules and widespread disinfection. Reports critique Medical Inspector Dr Krauss and note delays in reporting cases. I, a reporter, visit cholera hospitals and a morgue where child victims and grieving families fill the scene amid mass burials.
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Hamburg
London
Morning
London Zine
Standard
Journal
Krauss
Board of Health
Prof. Koch
Roth
Berlin
Kranas
Cortes
Ohlsdorf
Hamburgs Charnel House Death Toll Amid City’s Horror
A Hamburg journalist tours a city morgue and hospital district, describing 400 corpses piled in a shed, 120 bound on boards for transport, and living victims arriving at Lohmühlenstrasse hospital as police bar crowds and fear grows. He recalls a 15 year old girl pleading for a letter to her mother and notes authorities’ strict limits on access.
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United States
Charles H. Burke
Sthamer
Senator Hachmann
Heidelburg
Mark Twain
Borgfelderstrasse
Charnel House
Hamburger Nachrichten
Ohlsdorf
Arthres
General Hospital
Lohmullenstrass
Hamburg
Yolusse
Inside Hamburgs cholera hospital graves and death
A correspondent describes overcrowded wards with dying patients and postmortem exams in Hamburgs cholera hospitals. He notes many coffins, explains staff illness rates, visits the new hospital in Oppendorf, and reports 600 Russian emigrants under quarantine. He surveys quayside districts, dire living conditions, and signs of the epidemic abating as cool weather helps.
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Anlady
Sandthor Quai
Elbe
Amerika Quai
Hamburg-American Packet Company
America
Normannia
New York
Prof
Koch
Stahmer
Burke
Hamburg
Havre
da Sthamer
Spitalerstrasse
Horn
Hammersmask
Berlin
Steinstrasse
Pollar’s
Cholera Hospital Expansion Amid Epidemic Rumors
Doctors and nurses kept the truth from a distressed child as cholera ravaged Vienna. Dr Yolasse guided us through the institution where 1200 patients were under care. amid rumors, the hospital added eight barracks to house the ill while new cases stopped and transfers to Oppendorf began.
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Aix
Neues Krankenhaus
Oppendorf
Treatment of cholera seen by Berlin reporters
A Berlin witness describes cholera care at a hospital and cemetery. Prof Rumpf and a physician discuss revive methods by forearm incision and injected solutions. At Ohlsdorf cemetery 200 workers dig graves daily with only one death from the disease amid harsh urban poverty.
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S Steamship Company
Berlin
Prof Rumpf
Rumpf
Ohlsdorf
Another Train Robbery Strikes Pacific Express in Missouri
Kansas City dispatch reports a single robber chained and gagged a messenger on the Missouri Pacific train last night while an accomplice guarded the rear door. The thief obtained the key from the guard and unlocked the express car door, taking an estimated five hundred dollars before escape. no suspects or method disclosed.
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Kansas City
Sept
Pacific Express Company
Missouri Pacific
Reading Strike Talks Seek Management Attitude
Philadelphia September 8 The Reading system strike talk cooled with President McLeod in New York. The Reading office said the committee that met yesterday would reconvene tomorrow to secure an interview with the President. The committee reportedly means no strike and aims to gauge management stance toward labor organizations for harmony.
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Philadelphia
McLeod
New York
Reading
Crespo Seizes Power and Venezuela Hails Peace
Unofficial State Department advices report General Crespo has triumphed overthrowing the dictatorship in Venezuela. Crespo reportedly called to Caracas to assume control, with prospects for restored peace after instability.
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Vasumeros
Department of State
Venezuela
General Crespo
Caracas
New Sea Giant Campania Launched by Cunard Line
The Cunard Steamship Company launched the Campania in September at Glasgow. The steamship is built for the New York and Liverpool service and is described as the largest steamship in the world.
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GunsGow
Sept. R
Campania
Cunard Steamship Company
New York
Liverpool
Corbett Made A Hero After Defeat By Sullivan
The aftermath of the Sullivan vs Corbett bout reveals Sullivan in a disfigured state, with bruises and cuts from the fight. He muttered in sleep and spoke of Corbett’s tactics, acknowledging fear and respect for the new champ as he contemplates plans to return home.
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Quished
Fos
New Orleans
Mc.Auliffe
John Kelly
Phil Casey
Associated Press
Sullivan
Casey
Corbett
Johnson
Wakely
Fistle
Boston
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Potter's Field
Midutner
Yolasse
Dr. Yolasse
Dr. Yolatse
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