The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-03-06

W1D0 tu0 u4yOIs Au NV ou0 V4V9x AAsa~A
ceased. The bodies were lying IN the
streets unbut1ed. All railroads and
vessels carrying food and such things
into the great city had ceased rum
ming, and mobs Of the hungry poor
were pillaging the stores and ware
houses. Murder and robbery and
drunkenness were everywhere. AL
ready tho people had ned from the
city by millions-at flrst the rich. in
their private motor cars and dirigibles,
and then the great mass Of the popu-
lation. on foot, carrying the plague
with them. Themselves starving and
pillaging the farmers and all the
towns on the way.
1.-THE man who sent this news, the
wireless operator, was alone with his
instruments on the top OF lofty build
ing. The people remaining in the city
Tho estimated them at several hum
bred thousand-had gone mad from
fear and drink, and ON all sides Of
him great fires were raging. He was
q Hero, that man who staid by his
post-an obscure newspaper man,
most likely.
For twenty-four hours. he said. no
transatlantic airships had arrived, and
no more messages were coming from
England. He did state. though. that a
message from Berlin--that's in Ger
many--announced that Hoffmeyer, a
bacteriologist OF the Metchnikoh
school, had discovered the serum for
the plague. That was the last word,
to this day, that we Of America ever
received from Europe. If Hoffmeyer
discovered the serum, 1t was too late,
or, otherwise. long ere this. explorers
from Europe would have come looking
for u.s.. We can only conclude that
what happened in America happened
in Europe. and that, at the best. some
several score may have survived the
Scarlet Death on that whole continent
For one day longer the dispatches
continued to, come from New York
Then they, too, ceased. The man who
had sent them, perehed in his lofty
building. had either died OF the plague
or been consumed in the great con-
fiagration he had described as raging
around him. And what had occurred
in New York had been duplicated in
all the other cities. 1t was the same
in San Francisco. and Oakland. and
Berkeley. BY Thursday the people
were dying 30 rapidly that their
corpses could not be handled. and
dead bodies lay everywhere. Thurs
day night the panic outrush for the
country began. Imagine. my grand.
sons, people. thicker than the salmon.
run you have seen on the Sacramento
river, pouring out Of the cities by
millions, mndly over the country.
In vain attempt to escape the
ubiquitous death. You see, they car
ried the germs with them. Even the
airships Of the rich, fleeing for noun
tain and desert Businesses, carried the
germs.
Il was telling about the airships Of
the rich. They carried the plague
with them, and no matter where they
fed. they died. never encountered
but one survivor Of any Of them-Mun-
gerson. He was afterward at Santa
Rosa, and he married my eldest daugh-
ter. He came into the tribe eight
years after the plague. He was then
nineteen years old. and he was COM
PEELED to wait twelve years more be-
fore he could marry. You see. there
were no unmarried women, and some
Of the older daughters Of the Santa
Rosans were already bespoken. So he
was forced to wait until my Mary had
grown to sixteen years. It was his
son, Gimp-Leg, who was killed last
year by the mountain lion.
"Mungerson was alsven years old at
the time Of the plague. His father was
one Of tho Industrial Magnates. Q very
wealthy, powerful man. It was on his
airship the Condor, that they were
fleeing. with all the family, for the
wilds Of British Columbia. which IL Tar
to the north Of here. But there was
some accident, and they were wrecked
near Mt Shasta You have heard Of
that mountain. II II far to the north.
The plague broke out among them.
and this boy Of eleven was the only
survivor For eight years be was
alone, wandering over . deserted land
and looking vainly for his own kind.
And atiast, travelling south. he picked
up with us, the Santa Rosans.
but / am ahead Of my story. When
the great exodus from the cities around
San Francisco. bay began, and. while
the telephones we're still working. !
talked with my brother. I told him
this fight from the cities was insan-
ity. that there were no symptoms Of
the plague In me, and that the thing
for us to do was to isolate ourselves
and our relatives in come safe place.
We decided on the Chemistry build
ing. at the university, and we planned
to lay In . supply Of provisions, and
by force OF arms to prevent any other
persons from forcing their presence
upon ~ after We had retired to our
refuge.
CONTINUED Next Week.