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Show PLAGUE ALMOST BEYONDJONTftOL Cholera Situation in St. Petersburg More Serious Than Visitation of the Year 1893. Disease Alto Spreading In Manila, There Doing Many Deaths, Out Health Authorities Are Confident of Gaining Control of the Situation, St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg Is In tho grasp of Asiatic cholera, which already al-ready has exceeded In severity and numbers tho vlsltntlon of 1893. Tho dlseaso Is Increasing dally at an alarming rate, and unless tho authorities authori-ties show In tho futuro a much greater degreo or ability to cope with tho situation sit-uation than they havo In tho past thero Is ovory reason to rear that It will get out of hand, Tho government's threat to apply tho provisions of martial mar-tial law has driven tho municipality officials to bend all their energies to clearing tho city of tho scourge. Tho nldermanlo council has voted $250,000 to enlarge the hospital space, to pur-cbaso pur-cbaso and dlstrlhuto disinfectants, tho supply or which In St Petersburg Is well-nigh cxhnustcd, and to expcdlto tho Interment or bodies, which has been notoriously slow. Tho dead bouses aro overcrowded and many corpses Ho unburlcd. Mnnlla, Fifty-eight now cases of cholera and nineteen denths aro reported re-ported for tho twenty-four hours ending end-ing at 8 o'clock Monday morning. Tho Infected areas In tho city and suburbs nro spreading somewhat, but the health authorities aro still confident confi-dent that thoy will ho able to speedily gain control of tho situation. Governor Oonoral Smith has summoned sum-moned a special meeting of tho members mem-bers or tho Phlllpplno commission, to discuss the plague situation and to lay plans for an extension or tho campaign cam-paign now being waged against tho dlscnso. Federal troops nro guarding tho sources of tho city's water supply to provont Uio throwing or any Infected mattor Into tho water, and It Is probable prob-able that tho forco thus engaged will bo largely reinforced. |