Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-04-02
DYING BY SCORES.

xe0rtul MORTALITY In ChtC8gO-AbOut 900
Deaths Reported for the Week--Nearly
2 Quarter Of = Million Residents Sick.
CHICAGO, March 80. The deaths re-
ported from pneumonia and kindred
ailments for last week number
900, the largest number ever
recorded iii this city. A careful
estimate justifes the statement
that nearly $50, 600 people id this city.
are Under medical treatment. Every
branch Of business is crippled BY the
prevailing sickness.
The officials in the department of
health say that the number Of deaths
reported last week is without prece-
dent. There have been single days in
the history Of the department when the
number OF deaths reported was un.
usually great, noticeably a, day in July
three years ago, when SO many people
were overcome by the heat The
number IF deaths Since the LIST 81
March, compared with the number for
corresponding period in 1890, Illus
trates the present condition of things
very clearly. The table is made up bv
weeks:
DU5k iSecOn0 xHlr1 E0httk
10eek. tUetE. aCeeE. lbseE
1851 -. ..4a 70 So So ~ ~
There were no less than $50 funerals
In the city on Sunday, most Of the buri<
ais being those of grip victims. Many
other funerals were postponed for lack
of burial facilities. The greatest mum.
Der OF interments took place in Calvary,
where thirty-seven persons were buried.
The average per day last week at Gals
vary was thirty. Oakwoods had
twenty-six interments Sunday,
with an average of twenty-six
per day for the week. Rose Hill
had twenty-one burials Sunday. It's
daily average last week was. nineteen
Gradelatid only had sixteen irterments
Sunday, the lowest number for six Sun
days The daily average for Graceland
last week was twenty. Other smaller
cemeteries ran away above their aver
age Of interments.
DIR. j. D. Hammond said Friday:
'''The present epidemic Of the grip is as
bad as season of cholera as far as the
number Of people affected is concerned.
Every doctor that know is overrun
with business"
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 30.-Nearly
10, 900 cases of grip are now reported
in this city, and are springing up on all
sides. The local doctors unite III saying
the disease has become epidemic and
only hope for warm and dry weather to
come soon, as it is all that will check
it. The railroad offices are all short
handed, and less than half the
usual crews are working local trains
Nearly all the big stores are hunting
statesmen, but none are to be had, as
nearly everyone has the complaint in
some form. The weather has been damp
and chilly for several weeks, and this is
given credit for causing all the trouble.
OSHKOSH, Wis, March 3O.-The death
rate in this city the past week has been
alarming. In all twenty-six persons
have died, most of them from the grip,
and the undertakers have more than
they can do, and many funerals have to
be postponed in consequence.
FA1RBURY, Ill, March 3O.-La grippe
is prevailing here in an alarming de-
gree, especially in the country districts.
Entire families are stricken down and
the disease has proved fatal in quite a
number Of cases, especially among chill
dren. The doctors have more patients
than they can conveniently take care of.
KEoKUK, To-, March 3O.--William
Woolley, and old and well to do citizen,
committed suicide by hanging Sun.
day morning. It was thought that his
mind was temporarily unbalanced by a
= .
CHARLOTTE, Mich, March 3O.-Fred
Hall, aged IS, of Brookteld, killed him
self by taking poison. He had just re-
covered from severe attack of the grip
and it is thought he was temporarily in.