Show MYSTE11IPU8 MALADY i Theory in Reference to the Virginia Visitation A FATAL AFFRAY IN AEIZONA Collisions at 8 rA Desperate French Tfoman Deduction in Wages i The Illinois Contest the Mysterious Molatly PHILADELPHIA November 27W D Jones of this city the largest individual bud owner in the mountainous region eastern Ken and e f southwest Virginia tacky and Tennessee who has just j returned re-turned from a visit to his property today to-day made some interesting statements about the mysterious malady which has caused such fatality among the people there The country he says is wholly unlike anything he has ever seen or heard of in the United States and in his opinion its physical and geological peculiarities are responsible for the trouble The water ot five good sized rivers which have their rise within avery a-very narrow radius is very largely mineral and the hills are full of iron and copper ore and coal lying in some instances together During summer I sum-mer and autumn for a period of three months or more great drouth prevailed pre-vailed and nearly all the streams were dried up so that not only the people but the animals suffered from the want of water All sorts experiments were resorted to Most of the water secured was from caverns and small lakes The littlewater that remained in the most active springs became so thoroughly saturated with various mineral substances sub-stances that it was almost sure death I to drink it in any quantity Even the best oL this dangerous stuff had to be hauled five and six miles Mr Jones says that in all about 200 deaths have occurred from mineral poisoning and there are about 300 persons still sick In all case the persons have complained ior a day or two and have then been seized with violent hemorrhage and nausea dying in a short time Doctors all agree that it is mineral poisoning and have treated it as such in many cases successfully Children and women suffer most while men of strong constitution consti-tution generally manage to get over the attack The only outside relief that has been tendered the afflicted localityis 1200 from the cattle convention in session ses-sion at St Louis |