Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-07

/ Neal Daley.
William II. Kurtz. aged SO years,
Io2S Naudain street, died at the
Polyclinic Hospital from typhoid
pneumonia yesterday. He is survived
by his wife, a son. two sisters and
iour brothers. Funeral services will
pe heId tomorrow morning at 10
clock at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The
! Rev. Father Murphy, rector of st.
FRANCIS Church, will officiate. Mr..
hurtz was brakeman on the Phil
adelphia and Reading railroad. a
member of the CornpIanter Tribe.
LED Men, brotherhood of Railroad
1raihmen and Brothers of America.
Wesley ]. Dice, aged 81 years died
SUNDAY evening at his home, A
North seventeenth street. Funeral
services will be held Wednesday aft
ernoon at $50 o'clock. The Rev. l..
.. Manages. of Memorial Lutheran
church, will officiate. Burial will be
made in the East Harrisburg Gene
terry.
He is survived by his wife. Eva
Dice. father. Noah Dice; one broth
er, Charles Dice and one sister, Mrs.
%. j. Castle.
Mr. Dice was a member of the
knights of Pythias, and L. Q. o. NJ.
He was an airbrake machinist in
.Roundhouse No. .. and has been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania rail-
road for eighteen years. He is
member of the Harrisburg Republi-
can Club.
Dies at School
Miss +. Beatrice Krebs. aged 10
years, died at Wilson College,
Chambersburg, Saturday afternoon
at $50 O'Clock. Death resulted from
Spanish influenza, which developed
INTO pneumonia. The body was
brought TO the home of her parents,
Mr. ana Mrs Ammon w. Krebs. 1888
North Second street, yesterday
morning. Miss Krebs was an honor
graduate of the Central High school
IN the. class of 1918, being popuIar
III younger circles of the city. She
entered Wilson College as fresh
man about two weeks ago. She is
the eldest of a family of six chill
dren.
In addition to her parents. she is
survived by two sisters, Martha and
Grace, three brothers, Samuel. Will
nam and Robert, and grandparents,
Daniel Krebs, Riverton, and S. B
Rum berger Harrisburg.
PrlNate funeral services will he
held tins evening at s o'clock. The
rev. A. u. Flicker, pastor of the Har-
rls street United Evangelical Luth-
eral Church, will officiate. Burial
VIII be made in the Maple Grove
Cemetery, Elizabethville.
MlddIetown reports approximately
three cases in that borough. At
the meeting of the Board of Health
held on Saturday evening, DR.. II. H.
Rhodess reported that he had 15O
cases and DR.. J. f. Blucher, so cases
In three families at the lower end of
the borough there are eighteen cases.
AL the home of John Brandt. Pike
street there are six cases at the
nome of Grant Fornwalt, Union and
l,lke streets, six are suffering from
the disease. and in the family of
RANK Houser, South Catherine
street SIX are i'll. All doctors was
asked to report how many cases thev
have and if any new ones deveio1
must report them. The board also
ordered the public schools closed. for
the week. also poolrooms, bowling
Alleys Liberty Loan Hall, moving
picture shows, all churches. The
board again prohibited splitting ON
sidewalks under penalty of fine of
reports from the Aviation and
ordinance Depots indicate that the
epidemic has been checked slightly.
Al the present time seven doctors
and fourteen nurses are attending tho
boys.
Worse in Coal Regions
influenza conditions are growing
worse in the anthracite region and
we need all the physicians and
nurses we can get to assist in tight
ing the epidemic. Some of the nurses
who have been recalled from Mas
sachusctts will be sent to that sec
ton Immediately" said DR.. b. F.
Roger, Acting Commissioner of
Health, to-day.
We have established field hos
pitfalls at Minersville and Shamokin
through the assistance given by Ad-
Jutant General Beary and the POTTS.
vile Armory has been turned into a
hospital. The report l received this
morning from Minersville was there
had been thirty deaths in that town
alone. All state-controlled armories
in Philadelphia and the armories at
Chester and Scranton are now be-
ing used as hospitals and we will
open more as needed. Field hos
pitals have been established i'm
Scranton, Harrisburg and Steelton
and General Beary has sent ambu-
lances to Pottsville and Eddystone.
The sanitary detachment of the First
infntry has been ordered on duty
at Philadelphia"
Whole State Co-operates
DR.. Roger said that the reports
received to-day indicated general