Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1918-11-20

t#FPeaoe or mortality and SCOUT, off Iest.Iencc and deyastation which hasl already cost according 10 rcgor's thel sum of over two hundred lives o,t of. Tine smyll population. Of Nome il. iud- : ing the white people md EsNmo's tn Steamship Victoria slipped eU Iry out of that far Northern DOT atI about 1r-29 o'clock on the eyeniry of october 2s bound for Seattle or he-l l:st return trap Of tne season
 Sickness Brcak- out First Ds
 Illness attacked a.me of her lass sengers on the n9st day out. but the others were treasured on the core that it was not influenza, having thcl -cfect of throwing them off 2 ard. 1 when at late. period the pre-. encei oc the dread contagicn could no )n-- e be denied and over half If he list .l seven hundred were stricken own.
 The ships physician, Dr. q rc4 and rae ~tewardcss. arc credited Toy 1. uo passengers with having don ali in their power with the Sho.ta of medicines and facniu%s, the hipr4 .spply being wholly inadequate
 pr. Chace Aids Sick
 II is stated that Dr w. Darcy chace. a physician of Nome and out bound as a passenger rendered lem lid and urelcSs assistance mti he himself was stricken ill.
 Couldn't get ice-Watcr
 Complaining of the negligcnc. oel the ships officers and crew the pas- sengers arriving in Seattle charged that these rendered little or no a. sist auco Co the sick and dying and thatl ueir neglect of her unfortunate pas scnscrs was little short of erin inal. l. was exceedingly difficult to procure lce-Nater for those suffering tho mal- iguant fever stage of the disease and as an evidence of the neeligcn.c of Inc ships authorities it is pointed out that about eighty intermediate pas seugers were served by only ore all tendant. and he complaining or ill., ness. The conditions on the steera "e deck are reported even worse.
 Waves Break Rail and Smash State
 Rooms
 Enhoncing the wretchcdncss O the, miserable trip, two days after coy ing tnimak Pass severe storms were encountered which continued for five days. or practically all fthe rcI ain- ing trip At the height of the r)ugh weather the rail of the prom nade deck was swept entirely away D the force of the waves. staterooms were flooded and many of them were cavcdI in and demolished
 Five persons whose names havei been previously reported dicc en, routc
 Ambufances Wait Sick at Doc<
 Dispatches describing the irps condition had been wirelcsaed to the Health Authorities of Seattle and sew cnteen ambulanccs were lined up "t| inc dock to receive the sick and quickly whisked them away to -yait- ing hospitals of the city, and jomeI were carried 10 the Post Hospital at| I2t Lawton, and others to an oner- gency hospital which had been hastily fitcd out in the old King CrnntyI Coutr House .. Seattle Furnishes Volunteer irscs
 Professional nurses were diff icultl to obtain on account of the wal and the recent prevalence of the epic emic in this city but a sufficient numl er of vomentecr nurses came forwa q toI insure reasonable care for all pal ents,I and great credit is accordo to| Health Officer Mcbride for his cap able handling of the situation.
 Nome Passengers Hold Mass Me ting.
 II is notable that the Alasllans who were well and those who had racoN- cred from their attacks did not scat fer and shift for themselves, but promptly called a mass meeting for inc purpose of looking out for their less fortunate companions in the gen nine spirit de corps of the North and If which we have heard. This meet a11W 1eld i. the sssicss sf shsf Of