The populous districts alone, having suffered the least, still preserved measures of protection.

The were paraded by patrols of volunteers who shot the robbers, and at every street corner one stumbled over a body lying in a pool of blood, the hands bound behind the back, a handkerchief over the face, and a placard pinned upon the breast.
It became impossible to clear away the ruins or to bury the dead.

Soon the stench from the corpses became intolerable.

Epidemics raged and caused innumerable deaths, while they also rendered the survivors feeble and listless.

Famine carried off almost all who were left.