October it was reënforced by Asiatic cholera. Five thousand died during the ten days following, and these are only the recorded deaths. In twelve days a sixth of the population was buried. Egress from the city was impossible; families stayed at home within locked doors, and awaited the death signal. From the tales that survive of the visitation it would seem that human
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experience must have reached its limits of suffering by bereavement—and such a form of bereavement! There are recollections of that time—buried in the graveyard—to exhume which is to revive the horrors of the plague of bygone centuries.
A young Protestant minister, Dr. Clapp, who came to the city in 1822, and by a miracle survived all the epidemics, afterwards published the segment of his experience. In '32 he was kept performing funeral services all day long; sometimes he did not leave the cemetery
