Northwest History. Alaska. Epidemics & Contagious Diseases.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1918
• Subjects: Alaska villages; influenza; Nome; Porto Rico; Salt Lake War; Alaska; death; Solomon; Eskimo village; Spruce creek; disease; mine operators; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90693

Alaska Villages Are Decimated: Influenza Takes Heavy Toll Of Natives -- Nome Sends Assistance./Porto Rico Is Hit Hard./Estimates Place Cases At 60,000 -- Salt Lake War Prisoners Stricken. ALASKA VILLAGES ARE DECIMATED Influenza Takes Heavy Toll of Natives—Nome Sends Assistance. PORTO RICO IS HIT HARD Estimates Place Cases At 60,000 -- Salt Lake War Prisoners Stricken. NOME, Alaska, Nov. 25. -- Nome, which has suffered severely in deaths due to the influenza epidemic, is struggling to give aid to native villages to the north and east in which the toll of death is still alarming. In two days 30 natives died in one of these villages, and reports brought here said that fully 100 more deaths were probable. At Solomon, east of here, there are 40 orphaned native children, all adults in the families being dead. The Eskimo village on Spruce creek was wiped out by the disease. In Nome there have been five more deaths of whites, including three mine operators.