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Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
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Report from Campechy, Mexico, July 27, 1833, describes a devastating cholera epidemic in Yucatan nearly wiping out the population, with some towns having fewer than ten survivors, and an ongoing civil war turning the country into a battlefield, preventing travel to central Mexico.
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We are indebted to a respectable citizen of this place, for the following extract of a letter, brought by the schooner Francisco, which arrived here yesterday:—
Campechy, July, 27, 1833.
"The cholera rages here with such fury, that the whole population of the State of Yucatan may be said to have been destroyed; and there are towns where not ten inhabitants have survived."
The same letter states that it is impossible to penetrate as far as Mexico, because the civil war rages to such an extent that the whole country is nothing but a vast field of battle.
[New Orleans, Courier.
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Primary Location
Campechy, Yucatan, Mexico
Event Date
July 27, 1833
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whole population of yucatan nearly destroyed by cholera; towns with fewer than ten survivors; civil war renders country a vast battlefield, preventing travel to mexico.
Event Details
Cholera epidemic rages furiously in Campechy and Yucatan, devastating the population. Civil war engulfs Mexico, making penetration to the capital impossible.