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Show SCOURGE STRIKES NEVADA TOWN HEALTHY MOWED DOWN BY THE REAPER DEATH. Tonopah, Nevada, Ravaged by a Strange Disease, and Hundreds Are' Leaving Camp. Kono, Nevada. Hundreds of people flocked Into Hcno on tho Virginia & Truckeo train Friday night, fleeing from the sickness now so prevalent nt Tpnopnh. Every train for a wceft has been crowded ana, Btrnngo ns It may seem, tho Ingoing trains havo been filled also. . That peoplo are dying In tho bonanza bo-nanza camp Is how gcnorally admitted, admit-ted, but tho theory that their deaths has been caused by wood alcohol poisoning pois-oning is scouted. Tho peoplo of tho town havo taken tho matter In hand and tho Novnda Stnto Journal of Ilono will send In a physician, Dr. Heppnor, lato of tho United States nrmy, and a mnn who has been through a number of plagues. Ho goes to find tho truo conditions In tho camp, and will submit sub-mit a report soon after his arrival there. Governor Sparks has also appointed n special modtcul commission and sent tho members into Tonopah. Theso menwlll co-opcrato with tho physicians physi-cians of tho camp and at onco begin a cnmpalgn to. check tho dlseaso that Is mowing down peoplo at tho rate of flvo to twonty-fivQ.each day. On Friday Fri-day twelve bodies were stretched qut an slabs In tho only undertaking establishment es-tablishment in tho camp. An equnl number at least were dead around the town. Tho dlsenso strikes without warning, tho healthy aro tho most sus-coptlble, sus-coptlble, nnd In from twelve to twenty-four hours aro dead, tho bodlOB blackened by tho mysterious poison that saps tholr llvos away. |