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Show Blackheart Still Sweeping Tonopah New Disease Is Killing an Average of One and a Half Persons s Day. Tonopah Is still being emptied at the rate of 200 people a day. according lo O J. I'ooper. a mining man who came In fr..m that pari Of Nevada last night Mr 00 per Is staying at the Cullen hotel, having b ft Tonopah on Friday. He says that reports of the strange disease that Is raging lh re have not been exaggerated very much, as was supposod. An Impression has been gaining ground locally thai these reports were being manufactured for the sake .f fright, ning 1 pie away from the camp. "Biaek- beort," as the new disease (a called, Is still killing an average of one and a half persons every day. Death Rate Heavy "During this month." be said, "the death rate has not been less than one n day. Sometimes two or three have died, but not every day Th nature of the plague still continues to puzzle the physl- 1.1ns. It starts by taking a man in the head. He then g' 'u a pain through hh' middle, somewhere in the neighborhood of his midriff. After he Is Orel struck down it takes frnni to tblrty-slx hours to iinish 1 in One or two women have died Cause a Mystery. "The cause Is stin a mystery. Boms people nro Inclined t think 11 Is the water, it Is not unlikely, because the water In Tonopah Is none too good, not nearly as good as n is In Qoldfleld. it cannot be any adulteration, because some of the dead per.-ons have lie n pi-nplc that da DOl drink at all Tin- victims have been fairly distributed among the different trades, miners, dry goods clerks, gamblers and storekeepers, saloon men and professional pro-fessional men. It la driving people out of the camp fast 'I here were over on the train that I came out nn." Situation in Goldfield. Mi 1 oopor said he would not be surprised sur-prised to see hard times In Qoldfleld this summer " There are not over 200 men working In the mines In the camp." he said, "and there are from -1000 to i00 In the town. The transient people WOO keep coming Into and having the camp are the only one-' Dial keep It up to lis present pitch Times are not nearly so good there j now as they were a month ago. Of course I a man with some money can do business I there, but nny one who Is looking for work had better keep away." |