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Show TOWN ALMOST DEPOPULATED. Yellow Fever 8courg In Mexico Creates Cre-ates Reign of Terror. Death and panic by yellow fever after a reign of two month hsv reduced re-duced (be population of Linares. Mux-Ico, Mux-Ico, from U.octr to 4,ono, and the dread scourge Is vanishing beraua th remainder re-mainder ot th population has bean Immuned. It haa been a slero of horror. Deaths during tho most malevolent days numbered num-bered from twelve to thirty, and people peo-ple fled throuph tho mountain afoot and by any "means rnsalhl. Fow Americans remain snd previously there wer nearly 2,000 living thor. Th authorities, though no effort wer spared, found It difficult to handle the sltiistkn because th one. break of tho dlaeaae was general and th spread rapid, and It was necessary to haul th dead to th burying ground J without preparing them for burial. --" Mora than 400 persons ware strlckm at th earn tlm. and aa feat a they died or rocovered other fell bofora the hot breath of Yellow Jack. Mother remained who could hav saved tholr lives to nurse their stricken strick-en sons, snd sliters stayed by their brothers until Ihey fell, only to rlila on the samo dend wagon. Tha moonlight moon-light aitmiiier nlchls which had so beautified the plnr.a and afforded tha throng of promenadur Ihe Inspiration ao lovely, coupled with th natlv strains rf the grvernmont band, wer nlrhts nf dlro misery, and th etrt wore gloomy and dcaortod. |