Show BLACK SMALLPOX AT CHICAGO seventy five officers and prisoners exposed to the disease chicago april 8 A case of black smallpox loox caused tin the liveliest kind of commotion in the harrlson harrison street police po lice station this afternoon A in man a a all suffering met with tile the plague died in a cell 11 there and from twenty to thirty boffl officers acers and forty five an fn e prisoners were exposed to the disease the mana ma na name mae w as benson sherman but bue nothing further has hag been ascertained regarding himat 4 in the afternoon he via as brought to the police station by a man who informed the desk sergeant that hat sherman was vas drunk and 1111 asked ked tho the police to lock him up tit until 11 ho he was sober till a was iono done and a few hours after the lockup keeper noticed that sher she ming face tied had turned blick the health department was at once notified and as soon as the health hf alth allicer rP reached ached the man he pronounced tho the dloie black smallpox dr gann of the health bedith office at once had a thorough tho roush examination made everything every thing was done to relieve the sufferings Buffe rings of the man and preparations were made to move him to the peat house but before tho the ambulance arrived the ami died inspector on learning that 0 a victim of smallpox had bad died sit at the station atlon tit ordered the c e quarantined dr gann also ordered that everybody avory verY body in tho the be vaccinated vaccina ted and corps of physicians were wt set at we crork tit on oil the alias of tho the prisoners and ciff leers it was thought best beat to remove the tha prisoners and this WAS done the prisoners being removed to the twenty allmond street station |