CHOLERA IN INDIA
HUNDRED DEATHS A DAY RELIGIOUS FAIR MARRED FIRE AND TRAIN TRAGEDY Time* Cable LONDON, April 22 One hundred deaths daily from cholera are reported from Hardwar. says tho Delhi correspondent of tho Times. Fires are burning day and night to cremato tho bodies of victims of an epidemic which broke out at the end of the famous religious fair of Kumbhamela, which was marred by a succession of accidents.
Th© huts of an entire colony of traders on Rohri Island, in tho Ganges River, and tho personal effects of thousands of pilgrims tvere destroyed by fire on the last day of tho fair.
Six people were killed and many injured on the same day, when a train crashed into an enclosure of densely packed pilgrims. Doctors and nurses are hurrying to Hardwar.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 12
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