Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-24 | Page 14 | 130 Suffer from Food Poisoning

tt j.-i j. iZ f Launch ich Th Threefold Inquiry in j Near Nea Tragedy at r s S S. F R Banquet 1 SAN FRANCISCO Feb 24 A s o o. o elated Pr Prin Poisoned u-Poisoned Poisoned by food at a Salvation Army ban banquet que h here at re Su Sunday dy evening neary per persons ons test most of them children were recovering with few exceptions today as authorities began a three old fold fold Investigation to determine the cause of the near er tragedy hlo there no deaths re reported to- to r. r sorted ported ported at least n a dozen sufferers were still sti in Sn a a serious condition at atthe atthe atthe the San Francisco FancIsco hospital Among them was Colonel A. A W W. Crawford l second nd In command of or tho Gold Golden n Gate Hate division of or the tile Salvation Army and father rather of Rheba Crawford former for for- or mer Salvation Army angel of or Broadway a INAL ANALYZE FOOD C City City- t health officers began an nn analysis of food tood served at the banquet banquet ban ban- In 11 in m effort to determine the nature of or the pol poisoning Emergency cy hospital physicians said 81 the Symptoms resembled tho those so of r botu botu- linus polson poisoning In but withheld a del mate statement nt pending the annl annly- annly I More rore than GOO persons attended the tho banquet an us delegates delegates to the tho thoan- thoan an mini nual young peoples people's conference of or ortho tho the Golden Gate Gale Gile division of oC the Salvation Sal Sal- Sl valon Arm Army whoso whose territory In Includes In- In eludes nfl all nI Sari San Sn Francisco ba bay district dis dis- cities and Santa Clara y towns Tho The menu menu Included veal and chicken commercially preserved d corn corn pot potatoes toe ern cranberries a gelatine gela tine Uno desert milk mik t tea a and coffee corce Tho The first of or tho tIlo stricken diners arrived ed arl at a the Central Emergency hospital two hours after rr the meal I Some had been seized with fh convulsions cOnI others othel's were ere taken ill 1 while motoring to their thel homes In nearby towns towns BUSES ARE USED In a short time tie t Central Emergency hospital had hd treated fifty Ill Ill- Ir ty and when the situation became more serious every over available doctor and nurse on the staff taIf was called caled Ambulances were summoned to all al parts of the city cly and returned d with withful full ful loads Sightseeing buses bURes were finally utilized to brn In Iii the suf sut- Warnings were broadcast roa overall aU radio stations and md Instructions for or first aid treatment given cn because scores COIS of oC visitors from San Sait Jose Santa Cruz Crus San Luis Luls Oakland Oak Oak- land m Richmond and other othel out out-of- town p points had p partaken of oC tho the food tood Twenty of oC those who ho appeared to tob tobe tobe b be seriously affected were removed to hospitals hospital nr after r l being ln ing given sinn erner- erner Jenc nency gency treatment Others Other wore were cared for fOl at the emergency enc hospitals while those ablo ablA permitted to go so to their homes