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Show DIE MILL ! One-third of Vera Cruz Put to Flames to Stamp Out . .Disease PENSACOL.A. Kla., June 40. Pen-oacola Pen-oacola started a rat killing drive tor j day with a view to stopping the spread i of what' local physicians have pro-! nounced bubonic plague. Two deaths j have occurred from the disease since I last Friday. ' j BY JACK CARB13im". N. E. A, Sftff Correspondent. IIObSTON, Texas, June 1C. One-third One-third of the city of Vera Cruz has been reduced to ashes in the fight against the black plague there, according ac-cording to Americans and Mexicans who have Just come out of Mexico. Sheriff Binford. who has Just returned re-turned from Mexico, declares all reports re-ports from Vera Cruz say that a least one-third of the homes in Vera Cruz have been burned in fighting the outbreak out-break of the bubonic plague. Business In the city has been sus-pened, sus-pened, soldiers rule the city and no ono is allowed to leave or enter. The isolation camp on an ialand is crowded to overflowing. The peons think ihat Mexico is 'paying 'pay-ing for her sins inblood." The story generally accepted is that rats from a Chinese ship brought the plague. oo |