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Foreign News
November 1, 1911
Bill Barlow's Budget
Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming
What is this article about?
In Segni, Italy, a mob rioted against cholera control measures, believing authorities planned to poison patients and suspects. They stormed city hall, set it on fire, freed patients from hospital, and paraded them. Troops from Rome restored order.
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Cholera Riots in Italy.
Again from Italy has come authentic reports of a frightful outbreak of popular passion and ignorance directed against the methods or measures taken by the government to stamp out the cholera epidemic. On Monday at Segni, a town of 7,000 population, only 30 miles southeast of Rome, a mob of enraged people, laboring under the impression that the authorities intended to poison five cholera patients in a hospital and several suspects in quarantine, marched to the city hall to demand the release of all. The guards were put to flight and the building was set on fire. Then the mob rushed to the hospital, forced the doors, and, seizing the cholera patients, carried them triumphantly through the streets, some of them embraced and kissed by friends. Order was restored on the arrival of troops from Rome.
Again from Italy has come authentic reports of a frightful outbreak of popular passion and ignorance directed against the methods or measures taken by the government to stamp out the cholera epidemic. On Monday at Segni, a town of 7,000 population, only 30 miles southeast of Rome, a mob of enraged people, laboring under the impression that the authorities intended to poison five cholera patients in a hospital and several suspects in quarantine, marched to the city hall to demand the release of all. The guards were put to flight and the building was set on fire. Then the mob rushed to the hospital, forced the doors, and, seizing the cholera patients, carried them triumphantly through the streets, some of them embraced and kissed by friends. Order was restored on the arrival of troops from Rome.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
Rebellion Or Revolt
What keywords are associated?
Cholera Riots
Italy
Segni
Mob Uprising
Epidemic Measures
Hospital Attack
Where did it happen?
Segni, Italy
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Segni, Italy
Event Date
On Monday
Outcome
order was restored on the arrival of troops from rome.
Event Details
A mob in Segni, enraged by fears that authorities intended to poison cholera patients and quarantine suspects, marched to city hall, routed guards, set the building on fire, then stormed the hospital, freed the patients, and carried them through the streets.