Show SCOURGE STRIKES NEVADA TOWN HEALTHY MOWED DOWN BY THE REAPER DEATH too To tonopah nevada ravaged by 2 strange disease and hundreds are ara leaving camp reno heno nevada hundreds ot of people flocked into reno on the virginia truckee train friday night fleeing from rom the sickness now so prevalent at tonopah To every train tor for a week h has as been crowded and strange as ag it may seem beem the ingoing trains have been filled also that people are dying in the bonanza camp Is now generally admitted but the theory that their deaths has been caused by wood alcohol poisoning la Is scouted the people of 0 tho the town have taken the matter in hand and the nevada state journal ot of reno will sent send in a it a physician dr late of 0 the united states army and A man maii ho he lis bits been through a number of 0 plagues iio goes to aind the true conditions condition in the camp and will submit a report soon atter after his arrival there Governor Spar sparks has also appointed a n special medical commission and sent tho the members into tonopah these men will operate cooperate co with the physicians of the camp and nt at once begin a campaign to check the disease dibease that la is mowing down doun people at the rate 0 of live five to awen twenty ty flye each day on arl aay ay twelve bodies were stretched out on slabs in the only undertaking establishment in the camp an equal number at least ix ft ere lead dead around the town the disease strikes without warning warn lne the healthy are the most susceptible cep tible and in from twelve to awen ty four hours are dead the bodies blackened by the mysterious poison that saps their lives away |