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The Washington Post
March 12,1895

STRANGE DISEASE IN KENTUCKY

THERE HAVE BEEN FIFTY DEATHS, AND THE EPIDEMIC IS RAPIDLY GROWING

Ashland, Ky., March 11
Latest reports from Floyd County, brought by local traveling salesmen just returned , are not at all encouraging for the early suppression of the strange malady that is raging in the Mud River county. It has become so violent that even the physicians of the surrounding towns refuse to visit the victims. In all the death roll has exceeded fifty already, and the disease is on the increase.

The disease instead of being smallpox resembles cholera, except that it chokes the victim to death, beginning in the stomach and rising to the throat. In almost every case it has been fatal, the victim seldom living three days after the attack.

 

 

 

 

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