Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-05-04

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UOu lpouciuB sho S'"
mit.sd the deed while under the dslirium
Of smallpox. It will be noticed BY the
News account Of the affair ct the time
that the Indians refused to bury him or
have anything to do with tho body.
They asked that the town authorities
bury Il, and then wanted his house
burned, all Of which was done. Being
asksd Why they would not bury the body
themselves. they replied that they were
afraid To do 20. and In reply to the
question Of Why they wished the house
burned they said: blouse heap siok."
On the night Of the suicide. Tom had
already been sick with apparently . VIC.
lent cold for nearly . week. and some OF
bis Piuts nsishbors were leaving the
little village. fearing to remain longer
near him. His two wives, their mother
and their four children, oil living with
him In the same little house, were In
great fear, and also wanted 10 leave.
TIE bukShDAs
II was midnight. Tom was stripped
stark naked, a. 10 their custom whom
abou. to lie down TO slaep for the night.
but hs talked 20 wildly and acted 20
strangely thu. bis wives and family were
afraid. One Of bis squaws Mary ssys:
"He say alice Piutse no like him. He
heapss sick; gottee no friend; like die.
Then be tskes knife, gettss mad and
outtee head two three tius innss hsir.
He mskse heap noise and come plenty
blenty blood. We Pill hesp scared.
Then hs say be no good and be likss
die, and be goin' outtse throat. Then
hs stickum knifs In throat-blood come
big-fali down die. Then me and Judy
(the other wife) tskum Ross. Nelly.
Tommy and Katy and run awsy-moth.r
come too-allee Piutees run away"
In reply to the question, why did you
hurry to leave bim7" she said !: I'VE all
heap 'fraid. he hsspss bad sick. We
'irsid smallpox"
MORE DEATHS n SMALLPOX.
Since then. three OF the children.
Rosa, Nelly and Tommy, have died, and
both wives (,hsy are sisters) have been
very sick. one Of them nearly dying.
They, with other Piutes, are living In
the hills near sutro. keeping carefully
alooi from the whites and probably des-
tituts and suffering for the necesssries
OF life. Other Indians o come out
square footed and wi to their belief
that Tom bad the smallpox and was de.
lirious from IL whom he committed sui
eide. His brother. living in the vicinity
OF the Mound House. 10 now just rtcov-
eripR from the Same disease and has
lost his sight completely. Indians In
form the writer OF this that many other
children are now sick or have recently
died, aud that the three little Indian
boys who vera killed by their mother a
week ago last Sunday on Carson river
we're sick with smallpox, and the deed
was committed by the mother while
dslirious from the same disease.
TIE pIuTEs AMI VACCINATION.
Heretofore the Piutes have ipsistsd
that there Wal no smallpox among them,
knowing very well that II such was
known TO be the case the whites would
not like to have them around. or give
them employment. They have admitted
tina. there was . disease prevalent among
them, but insisted that 1t was the
measles. Yet II 10 q very significant
circumstances that all the Piutes In this
vicinity have fastened to be vaccinated
% fast % possible within the past two
or three weeks. And they believe In
vaccination % Q preventive Of smallpox.
Many OF the Piutss have a%nxiously In
auirsd since Toms suicide whether the
white men "found any spots on bin"
when they buried him. The delirium
Of smallpox, under which he committed
the deed, however. generally occurs just
previous to the breaking out OF the pus-
tulss. Moreover. the body had laid on
the floor, shut up closely In his cabin
for three or four days before being
buried. This was done In the evening,
and the body was In such 9 putrid condi.
ton that none cared to examine 1t close
iy, there being no suspicion OF smallpox
Ut the time.
BURIAL OF YrrzoERALp.
Tod Fitzgerald. who died Of smallpox
yesterday. was buried in the Masonic
graveyard last night. Considerable
trouble wal had In procuring sufficient
men to lower the body into the grave.
Before his death he stated positively to
his physician that be was at the Indian
camp, which would account for his con
tracing the disease. A brother Of Miss
~Crowlry-vho was . grammar school
pupil, and not In the High School-was
also over there and Il 10 quite likely car
risd the disease homo in bis clothing.
ATTENDANCE At THE SCHOOLS.
Professor Young reports that out Of
4s4 pupils enrolled at the Central build.
ing, 24S were absent this morning. On
the Divide only 40 were absent out
OF an enrolled number Of. 220. The
Professor visited the various rooms and
sent home oil who had visited Miss
Crowley or had been in any way 81.
posed. Hs also bad the articles buried
that were brought from Indian Toms
cabin.
TIE pArrENTs AND TIE pIsrAsr.
No information could be obtained Of
the condition Of the patients today and
no new cases have been reported to the
Town Marshal. The doctor 10 attend.
aucs on youug Fiizaersld pronounces
the disease the most malignant 10 char.
so,er. the pustulss turning black on
coming to the surface. But few came
ont on The young man and BIO wal
choksd TO death by the disease going to
bis lungs. Press Stillmau has only the
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