Show I TYPHUS EPIDEMIC I SWEEPS SIBERIA Persons Dig Holes in Ground as Only Shelter in Winter By Associated Press Sept 9 Siberia Siberia is threatened threatened threatened threat threat- greatest ened with one of ot history's typhus epidemics according to reports received here from Colonel Rudolph Balling former director of ot StLuke's St St. Lukes Luke's hospital at but now a am ember member m of ot the American Red Cross who with a party of ot the Red Cross I has been in western Siberia for six months The cases of ot typhus among among Siberian troops since January 1 I ac according according according ac- ac cording to Dr have aggregated aggregated I gated and since July 1 1 New cases now number thousands dall daily All the resources of the hospitals are overwhelmed helmed and the fever is rapidly spreading among the healthy soldiers and the civil populations populations populations of ot western and middle Siberia By midwinter the epidemic Is expected to reach enormous proportions Near ear Omak according to Dr 30 persons are actually without shelter Winter Inter is approaching and thousands of ot them are digging holes in Jn the ground In order to e escape cape freezing freez freez- I Ins ing to death Sanitary conditions are I described as frightful Unless the American Red Cross can furnish r relief says Dr the I death toll this winter will be far greater than ever before in Siberia The Ru Russian Red Cross estimates the I mortality amon among children at 30 per perI percent percent I cent and says It Is Increasing The American Red Cross Is operating equipped hospital train InI In a fully tuny ing I handling wounded direct from the i front front and special cars are being sent to the front to distribute medicines and instruments direct to the field hospitals hospitals hospi- hospi Dr and his party on leaving for Vladivostok received the fullest support and cooperation from the Kolchak government |