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Show MOB. CRAZED BY CHOLERA. Men Stoned to Death in the Streets of Saratoff. TERROR NOW INVADES THE LAND. Out of 100,000 People of Baku 80,000 Flee to the Country Carrying Infection of Cholera Throughont the Empire. Berlix, July 20. The Szartlistok publishes pub-lishes the details of the Saratoff riots. The state populace was infuriated by hearing the reports of cholera invented by the doctors, doc-tors, and waited for a pretext for riot. A young man, mistaken for a doctor, was attacked. at-tacked. A friend tried to protect him and both were stoned to death, the bodies being horribly mangled. The mob then spread over the city, wrecking hospitals, the houses of doctors, hotels, apothecary shops and releasing cholera patients. Nurses were cruelly beaten and deadly attacks were made on hospital attendants and surgeons. sur-geons. The imperiled men begged for mercy on their knees, but the mob was pitiless and killed all they could find. When troops were summoned the mob stoued them. The troops fired volleys into their midst, killing and wounding many. The troops then distributed throughout town. The cathedral is guarded with cannon. Loxuox, July 20. A dispatch from Baku says 80,000 of the 100,000 of the inhabitants of Baku have left town, carrying the infection infec-tion of cholera throughout the empire. The price of bread has tripled. |