June 15 1878
As I looked down upon the people I continued Eastward
through Omaha and Council Bluffs which were
full of disease, and women every whare The States
of Missouri and Illinois were in turmoil and strife,
Men killing each other, and women joining in the
fight, family against family cutting each other to
peaieces in the most horrid manner. The next I
saw was Washington, and I found the City a
Desolation. The white House Empty, the Halls of Con-
gress the same. Every thing in ruins, the people
seemed to have fled from the city and left it to
take care of itself. I was next in the city of Baltimore
and in the square whare the Monument of 1812
stands, in front of St Charles and other Hotels
I saw the Dead piled up so high as to fill the square
I saw Mothers cut the throats of their own
children for the sake of their blood, which they
drank from their veins, to quench their thirst
and then lie down and die. The waters of the
Chesapeake and of the city were so stagnant and
such a stench arose from them on account of
the putrefaction of Dead bodies that the vary smell
caused Death, and that was singular again
I saw no man except they were dead, lying in
the streets, and vary few women, and they
were crazy mad, and in a dying condition
Every whare I went I beheld the same all over
the city, And it was horrible beyound description

June 15 1878 As I looked down upon the people I continued Eastward through Omaha and Council Bluffs which were full of disease, and women every whare The States of Missouri and Illinois were in turmoil and strife, Men killing each other, and women joining in the fight, family against family cutting each other to pieces in the most horrid manner. The next I saw was Washington, and I found the City a Desolation. The white House Empty, the Halls of Congress the same. Every thing in ruins, the people seemed to have fled from the city and left it to take care of itself. I was next in the city of Baltimore and in the square whare the Monument of 1812 stands, in front of St Charles and other Hotels I saw the Dead piled up so high as to fill the square I saw Mothers cut the throats of their own children for the sake of their blood, which they drank from their veins, to quench their thirst and then lie down and die. The waters of the Chesapeake and of the city were so stagnant and such a stench arose from them on account of the putrefaction of Dead bodies that the vary smell caused Death, and that was singular again I saw no man except they were dead, lying in the streets, and vary few women, and they were crazy mad, and in a dying condition Every whare I went I beheld the same all over the city, And it was horrible beyound description