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Show SCOURGE OF FLU SHOWS NO ABATEMENT DEPRESS 7 SI1IH Ill STATE Sego, Utah, Paralyzed by the Epidemic; New Cases in Salt Lake 82f With 9 Deaths in City WITH practically the entire community suddenly utriek-rn utriek-rn with influenza, officials of Sepo, I'tan, a email coal min-iiifr min-iiifr settlement, near Thompson prlnKS nt nn urKenl rait to the male hoard of hfalih tmlay fur doctor doc-tor and nurnra. The report -stntril that the entire operating fon-e nf the ramp waa strtrk-en strtrk-en with the nmlaiiy and there were no doctors or nurses within hundred miles. Dr. T. B. Beaity, state healih commissioner. Immediately dispatched l)r. K. W. Tennant of Spokane, who waa sent here by the surgeon general, to the scene. It was Impossible, however. In obtain a trained. nurse to go to the aid of the stricken town. 14 ARE PROSTRATE. One of the most dislresHlnu and pitiful cases yet reported came today i from Delta. Fouitevn persons were V found prostrate and helpless In one oum with the disease and two others Are dead. -There are not enough Bt4 people to care for the dewd," waa ttie sense of the report. Mi Flor-nce Flor-nce Valentine, a local nurse, who was sent to Ielta at the outbreak of the scourge there, reported conditions extremely ex-tremely serious there. She said, how-. how-. ever, everything possible wua beina dona for the victims and that a strict quarantine Is being observed to prevent pre-vent a greater death toll. PARK CITY HIT. Park City, one of the last towns of the state to report the presence of the elldemic. notified the state board of health today that there are now thirty active cases In the town and five deaths. This is regarded e--a-rarrre death rate, being one death out of very six cases reported. Investigation nf employes responsible responsi-ble for poor ventilation In Salt Lake treelcara during the epidemic In vlo- , latlon of the state board of health order or-der that all ventilators are to be kept open, was begun this morning by health authorities and officials of the traction company. 8TREETCAR ORDERS. 8. R. Inch, general manager of the l'tah Power and Light comiiany, stated that an atNolute order had been Issued to ail motormen and con due- j ore to keep the cars well ventilated j ftad refrain from overcrowding them I s much as possible during the period j of th epidemic. Mr. Inch explained that more than I thirty motormen and conductors tiaxej been stricken with influenza, and that ' difficulty la being experienced In oh- tainlng men to operate the cars. He ; said the company Is suffering a loa ' of more than fh'OO a day during the i epidemic and that If It continues to i Increase an sppeal will le made to ! the state health board to iasue an or- ' der that will chanve the rush hours ! and prevent overcrowding. This, he j declared, will prohably ie an appeal to w change the starting anil quitting time i Lf employes and provide nior pas- , fgere for the empty cars during the j .ow hours. I Nearly 4o persons have applied at I the city emergency hospital for inocu- lation ws)h the Itosenaij vaccine since j 7'i.nt fn ned on p:t;e i I DEPRESSING - r ' f Con tinned from page 1.) ' tho serum was received from Boston a I few daya ago. Calls for the vaccine , have also leen received from several 1 towns throughtout the state. Indies- tiona were that the entire supply will be exhausted tonlxht. T"p to "lionti today The reports re-- i 1 celved bv city, county and state health j authorities showed no viiMc signs of I i tho epidemic abating. It la generally conceded that the so urge Is now in Its 1 third, last and most virulent stage and ' that extra precaution la Imperative on tho part of every Individual. A greater number of pneumonia cases seem to be developing from Influensa and general- j ly these result In a greater death toll. , I 92 NEW CASES HERE. j Nino deaths and eighty-two new cases were reported In rtalt Iake yesterday. yes-terday. One hundred nine deatha httve ' already occurred In the city since tne first cases developed here less than i a month ago and records show there 1 have been reported 231 7 houses In which there were one or more persons afflicted with the malady. ' I'nder an order issued by company officials, all employes of the Orem in- terurban line. Including motormen. con- j J due tore, clerks, section and round- house workers, are compelled to wear j J game face masks while on duty. The I C order became effective today. , it |