The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-02
LOOK OUT FOR DlpHTHERlA
CIRCUS MEN DEVELOP DISEASE
AND ARE QUARANTINED IN
DEADWOOD.
Dcadwood Paper Claims Rapid 'City's
Mayor Refused to Answer
Telephone.
Deadwood Telegram, July 81

Deadwood Telegram, July 81
Diphtheria has broken out among
the canvasmen of Campbell Bros,
circus and it is probable that the
show will be quarantined at Rapid
City today.
1nree of the circus employees are
now in the isolation hospital at Dead
wood and it is probable that large
number of new cases will develop
among the circus men in the next
twenty-four hours.
AS a result of carelessness on the
pjart OH Campbell Bros. anumber
of Deadwood people have been eX-
posed to the dread disease, which ap-
pears to have broken out in a most
virulent form.
On Sunday evening last, one of
the canvasmen men of the show wan
dered into the Office of DR.. Ashcroft
on Sherman street and complained
of feeling i'll. The physician at once
recognized that the map was suffer
removed to the isolation hospital
near Blacktail. Mayor Adams was
notified and he sent the city marshal
and City Physician DR.. Schneerer to
the circus grounds to find out if
there were any more cases there.
The physician examined all the
men and reported that SO far as he
could find out the one case was all
that had developed.
The circus played at Belle Fourche
yesterday and three new cases de-
veloped there. The sufferers were
examined by two physicians in Belle
Fdurch and were shipped out Of
town on the Northwestern train this
morning. They arrived in Dead
wood at 10 o'clock and were SO i'll
when the train stopped that they
were hardly able to alight from the
car. One of the men as soon as he
reached the ground threw himself
down on the brick pavement and the
city marshal on making inquiry
found that the man had been sent to
Deadwood by the Belle Fourche doc
tors
DR.. Schneerer was Immediately
summoned and he found the men
suffering from diphtheria. He or
dered them removed to Blacktail and
Mayor Adams began the work of
quarantining the circus.
He 'phoned the mayor of Rapid
City, where the show exhibits today
but the executive of that town re-
fused to come to the phone. Mr..
Adams then 'phoned to Thomas
SweeneyS, hardware merchant at
Rapid, and explained the situation.
Mr.. Sweeney at once realized the
gravity of the situation and called a
meeting of the business mems club
to take action to compel the proper
authorities Of the town to isolate
the show.
Said Mayor Adams this morning:
This is one Of the most flagrant
cases of neglect that I have ever
seen. I cannot find words strong
Campbell Bros. and the authorities
at Belle Fourche. The idea that they
would send three men suffering with
diptheria out of the town and un-
load them on another community
seems almost unbelievable. Think of
all the people that were exposed
this morning on the Belle Fourche
train. We did not know of these
last three cases until after the train
had pulled out and so were unable
to have the car fumigated in Dead
wood. It is impossible to say how
many people have been exposed as
the result of this carelessness
think the whole thing is outrageous .