Show The Isthmus Fe ere New York 14A letter to the World from Aspinwall dated the 4ttf inst says Of thirty Belgian mechanics who arrived here some months ago to w jrk on the Panama Canal eighteen have died of Isthmus fever Those who escaped es-caped are leaving as rapidly as possible It Is said that thus far since the commencement com-mencement of the work lUOU have died Huerne Stevens and Lynch of San Francisco have secured a contract for the excavation of 000000 cubic metres of the canal l at 30c cold per metre This is considered t1 remarkably low price They will have to cut through swamp and alluvial soil It is the worst section in the whole surface of the canal It was here that the dreadful mortality took place when the Panama Railroad was being built 1500 lives were then lost and many deaths were unchronicled |