Show NOTHING BUT COFFINS coffins needed in the stricken districts of eastern tennessee by aeed prett io to the herald ferald I 11 louisville LOUIS VILLU nov 29 arthur II 11 leonii Loo nii siw traveling representative of a new york firm was as in this city today t 0 having just returned from a trip drip through tho the plague stricken districts 0 of fe eastern kentucky loomis said 1 I 1 wae was four day days in martin county without disposing of a single artille article the eople are absolutely crazy they T h e V jay have e no use lo 10 anything but bist collins A great deal has been printed in the newspapers newE papers about tile lon in lit martin and adjoining ing count isbit it has been but hilt an imperfect reflex of f the existing deplorable condition I 1 know of instances 7 where whole fam ilie iliev have bave died lied within a week where entire neighborhoods h have ave been swallowed up tip in the tile grave w liere where onti on man has survived to bury hie ilia family and friends frit ads and then ilien been found dead with no tic living creature cred turo near except in sonic case a faithful dug floila of cheep and droves of cattle that used to t browse on the hill sides and along range of the cumberland now lie dead and rotting I 1 white pebbles glisten at the tile bottom of the tire creek beds wells aud and cisterns have been drained to tho tile bott omand the springs are no moi moie e to be relied upon for a supply of water the ground y is literally parched and where vegetation elation formerly bloomed luxuriously there is nothing thing but decay thousands are said to have died within the past two weeks chatin what Wh atin in the opinion of the tile natives is ibe the cause of this fatal calamity atia it is very evident that the chief agent of death is starvation the tito pe people I 1 in those districts are almost without wit commini communication cation with the world an occasional drum druin mer like myself strays among them once a year and a few of the lie most prosperous rous visit some large cities once in in a lifetime A good season brings with it bountiful crops wool and end other nativo native products are rudely manufactured into clothing but w hen lien crops fail them the order of things is reversed I 1 am f t peaking now of or the tile backwoods neighborhoods neighborhoods s where the ole plague lias has raped raged willi with alto he greatest fatality I 1 learned while in in martin lartin 1 county that the crop yield for two BUC fash P 4 seasons alad been aci a failure and mhd natives are without money and without means to chase bread the tile sli shutting alting off of the water supply lias has brought to lie tile surface n poi eanous liquid famished for fur water people drank and the consequences was death the first symptoms arc ate violent gri pings and after this a rapine raping headache liot lot fever ensues and the patient usually lid lingers liders ers two day p e suffering mental agony before death I 1 understand several physicians eliav leave been commissioned by the state to make a certain analytis of the water and describe des the poisonous ingredients relief has recently been dispatched patel led to martin from front neighboring 0 1 11 9 counties before I 1 left there thel w was a 8 1 a liht light rainfall with i ith prospects of continued falling failing tho tile opinion pre prevails vaili that tho the has passed through its most dangerous stages and is now on the wane doirin during the last no days daya of my stay I 1 heard of very few deat deaths 1 is |