YELLOW JACK.
Mail despatches recently received at Queenstown, from Santos, Brazil, state that yellow fever wns raging on every side, and the scenes in the city and harbour were harrowing. Men were dropping on the streets, dying in scores in the city and aboard the British and foreign ships in the harbour. Some of the British ships bad their flags at half-mast for weeks, as man after man succumbed to the fever. Boats are being rowed about the harbour day and night from vessel to vessel, collecting the dead, and taking them ashore for burial. Some ships have only one or two men left of their entire crews, and many of them were unable to get away from the peßt hole of fever, owing to the lack of men to form the crew.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 147, 25 September 1895, Page 3
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