Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-18 | Page 9 | Influenza Deadly to Indian Tribes

INFLUENZA DEADLY . TO INDIAN TRIBES PHOKMX. Ariz., He:. T. Two tlmu-aand tlmu-aand .Wivajo luiiluus rt,aiu',in; on that p:irt of l he resorvutidii in .Apache county umJer . l he jurisdi'-Uon of l-'ort L'e fiance have licl from influenza, accoplius to I- KoMns. yhief i-lerk of the Navajo agency at Fori J defiance, today. "Our office was close, 1 for three clays so that we could help bury the Indians." saKl Robins. "One Indian became delirious, de-lirious, killed his wife and four children with an ax ami then handed himself." Hundreds of Indians on reservations in Moni;lna have died of influenza and . pneumonia, according" to reports received . at various agencies. Jt lias been claimed that many deaths were caused by drastic methods which pome tribes used to eomlat the disease.' Influenza patients, it Is claimed, took hot water or vapor baths and then leaped into cold mountain streams.