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Show SPANISH INFLUBJZA GETS LOCAL VICTIM Storrs Youth Dies in Local Hospital Following Brief Illness. NO CASES AT DOUGLAS Hospital Authorities at the Post Fully Prepared to Handle Developments. Death, in (lie gniso of Spanish influenza, influ-enza, yesterday claimed its first victim vic-tim in Salt Lake and 'its second in Utah, when Eugene Rossi. IS years old, of Storrs, Utah, succumbed at a local hospital. According to city health authorities, au-thorities, young Rossi died of pneumonia pneu-monia superinduced W the Spanish ailment ail-ment which is sweeping the country. Rossi is said to have been one of the first persons attacked by the malady in this city. 'With his father a'nd several sev-eral other members of the family, the youDg man had come to Salt Lake to see the fair. The party was stopping at lob' South West Temple street, where the disease was first discovered. He was immediately removed to a local hos- pital where he died shortly before noon yesterdav. lie is survived by his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rossi; two brothers, Joseph and Rosario Rossi, and two sisters, Mary and Rosaria Rossi. Funeral services will be held at -o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the S. D. Evans chapel. Burial will be in Calvary Cal-vary cemetery. Two additional eases of Spanish influenza in-fluenza were reported to the city health authorities yesterday. Both cases were sent to the county hospital. Henry Voss, 'li years old, was removed to the countv hospital immediately upon his arrival at the depot in Salt Lake from his home at Detroit. Mich. New Case Found. "A new case was discovered today, ' said Dr. T. J. Howells last night, "that of a man named Haller Robinson, who arrived in Salt Lake from Charleston, W. Va., Friday night. His condition is serious, and he was at once removed to the-countv hospital, where we have es tablished a special ward for the treatment treat-ment of this disease. The establishment establish-ment of a special Spanish influenza ward affords opportunity to isolate victims vic-tims of the malady, and enables us the better to handle the situation. lTt appears that Robison, who is ati years old, had been feeling batily for several days prior to his arrival in Salt Lake, and he had hardly more than ar-tived ar-tived in the city when he was compelled to -tako to his bed at the place where he had secured a room. A physician who was called in pronounced his ailment Spanish influenza and notified the city board of health, which, in turn, requested re-quested us to take charge of the case. He was then removed to the county hospital. hos-pital. ' ' More than a dozen cases of the malady mal-ady have been discovered at Coalville, Utah, according to reports received yesterdav yes-terdav by the state board of health. So tense has the situation become that the town officials have ordered the public pub-lic schools and all amusement places to close. Tt is understood that at the request re-quest of the state health authorities pimilar action is contemplated in other sections as a result of the malady. No Cases at Post. There is no influenza at Fort Douglas- This announcement is made bv officers offi-cers of the post. It officially brands as false a propaganda "story which has been circulated widely through the city that the disease known as Spanish influenza in-fluenza was rife among the soldiers at the post, and that the condition was such the theaters, schools and other places of public gatherings in Salt Lake were about to be closed. There is not an iota of truth in the rumor, and the report is believed to have emanated from the same source whence have come other propaganda stories and false information of a simi- lar nature. Fort Douglas is one of the few military mili-tary camps in .the country where the disease has not made its appearance, and, of course, it might find its way here as it has to other camps, but up to the present time there has not been a single indication of the malady among the troops at the local post. The hospital authorities are' prepared to handlo the disease, promptly and effectively- should it make its appearance at any time, it is a-nnounccd. A careful care-ful watch is being kept for any suspicious suspi-cious symptoms, and an appearance of tbem would bo the signal for vigorous action designed to stamp out the trouble before it could get a foothold. General conditions at Fort Douglas are mn-h that the danger of epidemic, is reduced to a minimum. The sanitation is of the highest order, and climatic and atmospheric conditions are naturally natur-ally antidotal to mala.die.-i of the influenza influ-enza type. |