Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-08 | Page 8 | Influenza Now Reaches Alaska

INFLUENZA NOW UJMfll White Residents Affected jK'i and Eskimos Are Dying by Scores. Wfc i NOME, Alaska, Nov. 7. Nome haabeeiffl ;-stricken ;-stricken with influenza. About 30fjAttjf residents today were reported euffer&tr pQ and Eskimos in near-by villages were sail to be aying by scores. The weather hal D been beiow zero for several days. A number of white residents have JR . ; from the influenza, nmong them ltiter x Shields, Nome superintendent Ji trnt-,. United Slates government bureau of edu-I cation. I Many Eskimos were found frozen to death when their cabins were broKen Into by relief workers. Seventy soldiers at Fort Davis, near here, were taken ill. Holy Cross hospital, which had been closed, has been reopened to handle the influenza cases. The hospital is located at Holy Cross, a Yukon river point. All ' private hospitals ar crowded. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 4. Xot mors , than 500 white people are wintering In Ice bound Nome this year, Alaskans said herfl : today. They wandered how the Influenza reached Nome, Tor when the l&at bo4t " arrived from the states the malls wer fumigated and the passengers were kept in quarantine several days to prevent the disease from entering the town.