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Show "SALT LAKER: DESCR:32S;EC5SGnS OF . BUBONIC PLAGUE-STRICKEN ri AZATLAN , 0 Out of Maiatlan's population of 15,000 5000 have left the town and have taken quarters at the nearby ranches, as the authorities will not allow them to leave the district. In this, says Mr. Pilklngton, Pilklng-ton, lies the greatest danger, as the conditions at these ranches are wholly unsanitary, both food and accommodations accommo-dations being Insufficient. r . He estimates the fatalities at 33 per ' cent of those afflicted, but says that If the peons did not conceal their sick until the last- stages were reached nearly all could be saved. The horrors of the bubonic plague in Mazatlan, Mexico, are vividly described de-scribed by Lewis Pilklngton, formerly of Salt Lake, in a letter to P. J. Donahue, Dona-hue, the well-known mining expert of the Western Exploration company. Mr. Pilklngton says that the disease took hold in Mazatlan nearly three months ago. and since the middle of December the town has been panic-stricken panic-stricken by the" ravages of the dlsdse. There have been 150 deaths In the city, and on January 5th, two days before be-fore his letter was written, there were thirteen fatalities from the plague. , ' Mr. Pilklngton says that the great trouble in ' dealing . with the - disease comes, from the fact that the ignorant peons, among whom it is most prevalent, preva-lent, are afraid to have their sick sent to the pesthouse, but hide them "away from the authorities in every manner .possible. In this way the infection has become scattered among sections of the town where careful sanitation would have kept the disease away. So far, only one American has died" from the plague, and such cases as the doctors are able to treat at the incejn tlon have all recovered. |