Show TYPHUS TAKING TERRIBLE TOLL SICK SOLDIERS ARE TOPPLING OVER LIKE NINEPINS IN EASTERN TURKEY sanitary conditions are arc unspeakable hospitals are overflowing with patients all classes being victims of disease new york sanitary conditions in eastern turkey aro are unspeakable according to reports from cities there where the tha american board of foreign missions has hospitals made public hero here friday typhus and typhoid fever are ara raging missionaries nurses and other americans have caught the contagion hospitals are overflowing all schools in at least one district have been closed and sick soldiers are toppling over like ninepins it la Is said at Erz erum where missions were established for the use of sick and wounded soldiers the rev H R S Ss stapleton and his wife who is a physician were taken with typhus as well as their two children dr E P casey in charge ot of the american hospital there and his wife were later strick elli with the disease two ger mane n woman tires ti nurses res the d roggist I 1 tile li head ead turkish doctor and eaarl were attacked in turn there was waa no mention of fatalities except among the soldiers eold lers in the reports sick sold lera ers are arc lying in tile tho street in the mud reads the report of conditions at AIe Me in the tha military hospital they die at the rate of fifteen a day in the american boards hospital they are toppling over like ninepins |