Name not reported

Fourteen people held at the Arkansas penitentiary died of an illness that the Democratic Northwest, an Ohio newspaper, called a "strange malady" in a brief item published January 5, 1893. The paper reports the deaths together as a single group. The illness is named only by that phrase.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Source

• Democratic Northwest, January 5, 1893, page 8 Democratic Northwest, January 5, 1893