One cablegram says, "Business in the native town is about suspended.

Except the wailing and the tramp of the funerals.

There is but little life or movement.

The closed shops exceed in number those that remain open." Another says that 325,000 of the people have fled the city and are carrying the plague to the country.

Three days later comes the news, "The population is reduced by half." The refugees have carried the disease to Karachi; "220 cases, 214 deaths." A day or two later, "52 fresh cases, all of which proved fatal." The plague carries with it a terror which no other disease can excite; for of all diseases known to men it is the deadliest--by far the deadliest.