\ MANY DEATHS
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I FROM PLAGUE
There were 136 deaths from influ
enza during the recent epidemic in
the Bristol Bay district, according to
the information contained in a report
made by Captain Reardon and Dr. Rus
sell of the gunboat Vicksburg, which
has just returned from combating the
disease, to Arthur H. Miller, superin
tendent of the native schools for
Southwestern Alaska, who is at pres
ent in Cordova.
Captain Reardon stated to Mr. Mil
ler that he first attempted to land the
Vicksburg at the anchorage in the
mouth of the Nushagak river, to get
in communication with Dr. French, in
charge of the government hospital at
Dillingham. Owing to certain difficul
ty of navigation he found this im
possible, so he proceeded to Naknek
anchorage, and later confined his ef
forts toward the relief of the natives
at Ugashiq and Herrendeen bay,
where government schools are located.
The coast guard cutter Unalga extend
ed assistance at Unalaska, Nushagak,
Naknek and Koggiung.
Captain Reardon estimates that
there are nearly three hundred native
children left homeless on Bristol bay,
the adult population in some localities
being practically all dead. Gruesome
experiences were related of indescrib
able conditions caused among the na
tives by the relentless ravages of this
awful plague.
. Two native children and three adult
natives started from Nushagak for
Naknek, a distance of eighty miles,
in a rowboat. They were stricken with
the disease en route. The boat drifted
into Naknek, and when found the three
adults were dead and two little chil
dren nearly dead from starvation and
exposure.
^ The captain told Mr. Miller that a
native boy, in a weakened condition
from the disease, managed to row out
to one of the government boats and in
i' form the officer that his people w'ere
all dead, and asked for assistance to
bury them. On reaching the scene
they discovered that the boy had shut
several doys in the house where he
had left the dead bodies. On attempt
ing to enter, the dogs proved vicious,
savagely attacking the men, and were
shot. To their amazement they found
that the dogs had almost entirely de
voured the bodies, leaving nothing but
mutilated pieces of flesh and bones.
Captain Reardon, an eye-witness
from the first of the terrible condi
tions existing among the natives from
the scourge of influenza, volunteered
any further assistance he could render
the bureau of education in getting the
facts before congress to obtain at least
one hundred thousand dollars for the
care of the native orphan children oi
Alaska.
Dr. Russell reported 136 deaths at
the villages where he was in attend
ance rendering medical aid.
Mr. Miller at once cabled the au
thorities of his department, urging one
hundred thousand dollars appropria
tion for care of native orphans.
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