A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Harlan http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2689 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34158 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Telegraph and Messenger Article Date: December 5 1884 Article Description: The Kentucky Scourge. Appalling Number of Deaths--Whole Families Swept Away. Article Text: Louisville, December 4.--A correspondent of the Courier-Journal sent a dispatch from Mount Pleasant, Harlan county, Ky., as follows: "The scourge in eastern Kentucky is fully as frightful as has been intimated in previous messages. In Harlan county there have been 200 deaths since the latter part of August, most of them from flux." The correspondent estimated that in the counties he has visited--Harlan, Bell and Knox the total number of deaths is 400. He thinks the disease was more deadly in the Virginia counties north of the district named. The correspondent is now on his way to Letcher county, Ky., where the disease is reported as sweeping away whole families. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com