Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-27 | Page 15 | Epidemics Take Frightful Toll

'ffKTK , IGHTFUL TOLL V j ousands Perish in Lab-v Lab-v dor; Whole Settlements Are Extinguished. rnlvirssl Service. VaTBEAL. March IS.-From St. J V F., comes -word of Bhocking ' "'on In'northern Labrador as a re-epidemics re-epidemics of Influenza, smallpox . '"i -easies which swept the coast during "'er. It ls estimated that 50 per 'l iiie Inhabitants died and that only !: ,s'45 are left alive in the area from ' '.Jver bav to Nain. (II extent of the calamity will not untU the opening of navlga- V -;r In the season reports of deaths ' : southern section of the coast i. : .1 that 25 per cent or the natives ' J-ed The first reports from the 1 ''kirn section were received today. Grosswaier bay to Nain the epl. ':: , ned for four months. At Nain t : '.'veifotindianders who wintered on ',,( for purposes of trade sne-"'S sne-"'S and forty-odd Eskimos also ' i This represents practically the r, ;'. Dopulation of that settlement. ''; with a population of over 200, "r-ely wiped out. At Hebron 200 leavlns only a remnant of the resi- . ti,at station to dispose of the - it The survivors dug a pit, into : .'h thev threw the bodies, without I' "i coffin or burial rites, about one t't'd being disposed of in this man-Cm man-Cm the Island in the vicinity of i fifteen people who went there for J'-.s died and the bodies were de-'"d de-'"d bv dogs. . '"w outposts, which are invariably "- cted with the central mail posts, ': i to report, and the conclusion is : ; ,v6 whole populations of these places i:a died of the disease. The most ap-: ap-: -z conditions are expected to be dis-: dis-: ,'d when the Ice barrier permits In-, ; -nation. Medical aid waa unobtaln-i unobtaln-i '.'in the frozen regions.