Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-28 | Page 5 | Babies Are Made Orphans by "Flu"

'BABIES ARE MADE ORPHANS BY W SALT LAKE, Oct. 28. Tragedy has been encountered constantly in grim and pitiful form by members of the local lo-cal Red Cross chapter since the epidemic epi-demic of Spanish inlluenza visited Salt Lake, but at midnight Saturday night a case was revealed that touched more deeply than all before. Two heartbrok- en children were discovered vainly trying to awaken their dead mother. They are orphans. Their father died some time ago. Saturday night Robert J. Shields was informed at Red Cross headquarters that a woman had diod of influenza in a Japanese boardiug house. Accompanied Accom-panied by members of the police department de-partment Red Cross workers went at once to the address. It was with groat dimculty that they persuaded a servant ser-vant to show them the room in which the death occurred. The sound of bitter sobs led them to hurry as they approached the room. There they found two little girls, one a mere infant, weeping bitterly in the bed with their dead mother. They perceived per-ceived at a glance that she was not Japanese. They led the children away. Neither could understand why their mother should not be allowed to go. At tho Red Cross hospital nurses bathed and fed the babies. "Mama would like something to eat. too," said the oldest. She is hungry, too. She cried so much and I don't know why. Father ls dead." The child informed J. Fred Anderson Ander-son that her name was Frances Mc-Glaughlin,and Mc-Glaughlin,and that she was 3 years old. The youngest child, she said, was S months old. Hej name is Helen.