Gunnison Gazette | 1911-02-24 | Page 2 | Torch for Plague Victims

TORCH FOR PLAGUE VICTIMS. Fear of Death Overcomes Chinese Superstition Against Cremation. Peking There is noticeabje activity activ-ity by the Chinese government to stay the spread of the plague, and sanitary measures are being strictly enforced In all the towns where a few weeks ago the disease was allowed full swing. Instructions have been issued that every village burn its dead. The panic and fear of the plague have overridden the Chinese superstition super-stition against cremation cf the bodies of the victims, and now almost daily the torch is applied to piles of hastily constructed coffins, among which are often seen bodies wrapped only in shrouds.