Show Meningitis Epidemic Brought From Orient Feared by Coast Co st Cities I By GEORGE D. D CRISSEY United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO March 28 By United Press With mOre than a score dead others dying and hundreds hun bun under observation tear fear was expressed today that o e ri liners from the the- orient mIght carry an epIdemIc epI- epI demIc of spinal meningitis and influenza in- in Into tIme the United States In various ports 1234 persons persons per per- sons all steerage e passengers were held in quarantine More than persons recent arrivals from tIme the i Far East Elst are Ill The Dollar liner President Pierce brought Henry L. L Stimson the new secretary of state from Manila a week ago was the scene oJ of the most serious phase ot of the epidemic BURIED AT SEA While the ship was en cn route from flom Manila the bodies of 11 mostly Filipinos were lowered into the tho Pacific victims ot of spinal men inca and influenza Three bun bun- dred and eleven other passengers of tIme the President Pierce are arc in antine At Seattle the 1 resl ent Jackson had quarantined passengers aboard Nine from the same ship were in Seattle hospitals British Columbian authorities at Vancouver reported passengers of the Empress of Russia Canadian Cana- Cana dian Pacific liner Were detained Cli after two deaths had occurred that ship A fourth ship the President arrived in iii Seattle from Madison the ori orient nt with aboard TIme The passengerS on tub tho ship were detained not at DIamond point barI bar bar- I racks CLOSE GUARD Pacific coast cities in danger of time the threatened epidemic have taken extra precautions to prevent of the disease and ar are guarding guard guard- the entry ot of at- at InS InS' closely against or 01 germ germ carrying persons All arrivals from the orient will willbe be subject to examination with attention to Fill Fill- 1 pinos Dr William C. C Hassler San Francisco health officer said |