The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-04

Dodge, Iowa, in which he says he had been down with an attack of Spanish influenza and managed to fight it successfully. Nels was pro- noted to the rank of sergeant on the 26th of October and trans fered to Go. B s7th infantry, and is now engaged in drilling a bunch of rockies from the farms. His brother Nick was also transferred to Go. B.. ST tn infantry, with the rank of corporal Nick, too, had an attack of influenza.
 In a postal card to O. NJ. Jack son. under date of Oct. 27, Nels Larson tells of being an inmate of the camp hospital for eight days with the flu, but at the time of writing was feeling fine. He sends his regards to all his friends.
 Ed. Bresnahan received letter from his brother Bob, dated Oct 22, from Camp Dodge, and learned for the first time that he had been a sufferer from the flu" for quite a spell. Bob had only been dis charged from the hospital on Oct. I21. He says that upon his arrival back in barracks from the hospital he was dumfounded at the number of deaths that had occurred among the members of his company. Con- tinuing his letter, he says: 'The following boys of our company who have succumbed to the disease and who you know are: Harold Ander- son, John Nye, Nick Gustiff, Mike Meagher, Roy Douse, Roy Esgate' Ralph Tennant, Charles Dienert, Lawrence Morency, Roy ketchum, Russel Lovelace, Joe Gustafson, Fred Wick, Alex Zaboff and Mike Saroff, besides three of the regu- lars from the Fort Gibbon garrison. At that there are twenty-five boys ! in the hospital still, and some of them are not expected to pull through. This is only the total 10 date from Company B, the other companies from Alaska suffered fully as badly as we did"
 Arid Slippern, writing to his father J. A. Slippern, from Camp Dodge, under date of October 19, tells of the varied experiences met with enroute to Frisco, of their de
 parture from Frisco and arrival al
 Camp Dodge, Iowa, in which he says:
 "Took us four days to reach here from San Francisco and when we
 arrived the camp was under quar antine-it had been under quaran- tine even before we left Frisco
 Well, it wasn't long before oul Alaska huskies, used to pure air got the Spanish influenza and were
 taken sick. Harold Anderson anc
 Roy Douse were about the first i had been here about four day: when I felt too sick to drill. Hardly
 expected to be sent to the hospital
 but that is where they sent all o1
 us that had a fever. l had 1O2 but felt perk enough They kep me in a week and I have been bacl three days now, and it feels might!
 good to get back too and get {; square meal under your belt. A the hospital it was soup, and more soup. Well, most of us are bacl now, but lot have passed away and there will probably be fev more pay the toll.
 "It sure was a shame to brin, thousand healthy troops into pest camp like this. Every nigh
 twenty-four of us were sent to tn
 hospital to act as orderlies and wal on the sick men. There were onl two of our first squad who wer
 not taken down with the flu" an, there were only 20 of our entir
 company of 18s men, who did no go to the hospital"
 Writing to Frank Doner iron Camp Dodge, under date of Oct
 22, Grady Sumerlin, who is mes
 sergeant of Co. B., 14th infantry