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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 195
this place. When it broke out here it fell upon them like a thunder boalt.
It seemed almost audibly to crash upon them. If the billows of the sea
had been breaking in upon them, their consternation could have been no
greater. They fled in every direction. Of 5,600 inhabitants only 1,000
remained. Of this remnant about 400 died. So malignant Avas the
epidemic that it Avas no unusual thing for business men to be attacked
in their shops and stores, go to the cabinet Avarehouse and engage their
coffins, and then go home, lie down and die before their coffins could get
there. Not less than five ordained ministers of the gospel were among its
victims."