Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-02-09 | Page 17 | Marooned Indians Ill with Influenza

I MAROONED l INDIANS NS ILL WITH INFLUENZA Eureka Cal Fob rob S. S S. S Tho S.-Tho Tho epidemic of or influenza sweeping over o Humboldt county count Is Js pro proving particularly fatal to the tho Indian families along Eel river Recently when flood Inundated some t twenty went square miles mile of or territory near limo tho mouth of or tho the rivet river an Indian family mother and ton children all nIl suffering from the tho Influenza was marooned marooned marooned ma ma- on a a. small l land island Aid finally was waR taken to the sufferers by 11 moans or of boal boats but tho the mother died shortly thereafter When arrived tho children were scattered in a a. helpless J condition about the hOll house