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Show Kiddies Made Orphans When Mother Is Stricken 4 A d Death Reveals Pitiful Case to Red Cross Workers QEPHANS by reason of the death of their mother from influenza, Frances McGlaughlili, 3 years of age, and Helen, I 8 months old, present one of the most pitiful cases that have come under the notice of local Eed Cross officials. ' Ellcrbcek Studio. . mm t - l Find Babies Sobbing in Bed With Body in Japanese Japa-nese Rooming House. TRAGEDY has been encountered constantly con-stantly in grim and pitiful form by members of the local Hed Cross chapter since the epidemic of KpanT ish influenza visited Salt Lake, but at midnight Saturday night a case was revealed that touched more deeply than all before. Two heartbroken children chil-dren wcro discovered vainly trying to awaken their dead motlier. They are orphans. or-phans. Their father died some time ago. .Saturday night Robert J. Shields was informed at Red Cross headquarters that a woman, had died of influenza in a Japanese boarding house. Accctmparfied by members of the police department Red Cross workers went at once to the address. ad-dress. It was with great difficulty that they pursuaded a servant to show Ihein the room In which the death occurred. The sound of bitter sobs led them to hurry as thev approached the room. There thev found 'two little girls, one a mere infant, weeping bitterly in the bed with their dead mother. They perceived nt a glance that she Was not Japanese. They led the children away. Neither could understand why their mother should not be allowed to go. At the Red Cross hospital nurses bathed and fed the babies. "Mama would like something to eat. too," said the oldest. old-est. Sho is hungry, too. She cried so much and I don't know why. Father is dead." The child Informed J. Fred A ndereon that her name was Frances McGluugh-Un McGluugh-Un and thai she was 3 years old. The youngest child, she salo, was S months old. Her name Is Helen. Although influenza Is thought to have caused the mpther's death, she had op-noponiU' op-noponiU' hon ill lor munv months. There were evidences that fho had striven valiantly val-iantly to care for her bUbea, for their clothes were neat and whole. What privations pri-vations she herself may have encountered encoun-tered can only be surmised, according to the Red Cross officials. A school teacher, who already has one dependent, took the two orphans to her heart and insisted that she be allowed to care for them in her own modest home until relatives were found or some good family wished to adopt the forlorn babes. There Is little hope that relatives will be discovered, according to the Red Cross officials, and two little girls svlll probably prob-ably be candidates for adoption. |
