The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-29
COAST WORKERS
 ASSIST NATIVES
 DURING ILLNESS

was expended by the Alaskan En- gineering commission to aid Indians along the line of the government railroad in the Anchorage division during the recent epidemic of the Spanish influenza. Thirty-one of the natives died of the disease At times, all the Indians in some of the villages were down with the
 illness, and the sick were cared for and the dead buried by Commis- sion employees.
 ] At Susitna, which is thirty-five miles west of Wasila, d station on the government railroad, forty-five miles north of Anchorage, twenty of the natives died. With the An chorage Red Cross chapter, the Commission co-operated in sending food, clothing, medicine and nurses to the stricken village.
 At Chckaloon, which is on branch of the government railroad. seventy-four miles northeast of An chorage, the natives underwent siege of influenza and were looked after by employees of the Com. mission. None of the patients died.
 Montana, a station on the gov ernment railroad, ninety-five miles north of Anchorage, is the home of two Indian families. These were afflicted with the epidemic The 1. condition of three of the natives | was so serious that they were sent to Anchorage. They were past m- !! provement. One died on the way and the other two succumbed soon after their arrival at the hospital that had been established for ailng { natives in Anchorage. i
 At Question, railroad station l03 miles north of Anchorage, the ! entire Indian colony was taken down with the disease Two of the , children died. Commission employ i ees had to cut wood, furnish and 1 cook food and act as nurses for the natives.
 At Talkeetna, which is on the :; route of the government railroad !. ll2 miles north of Anchorage, Nick oli, the aged chief of the Talkeetna tribe of Indians, died; also one of his wives, one of his brothers and an infant. The Restitution of the :. survivors was so deplorable that until they fully recovered they had.l to be taken care of by railroad workers
 At the request of Thomas Riggs, ,)r., governor of Alaska, in an eff fort to relieve the residents at Kodiak, where the influenza ragged with great violence and where there was no physician, the Commission organized relief party consisting of pr. H. P. Palmer, captain in the medical corps of the United States army, stationed at Anchor age; C. H. Thompson, steward at the government hospital in Anchor age; and w. C. Hunt, marine en- gineer, who worked for the Com mission The party, furnished with medical supplies by the Commission, was taken over the railroad from Anchorage to Seward. At Seward. it was thought that arrangements had been made to take the mem- bers of the party in a cannery
 
 having waited in vain for the boat at Seward for eleven days, the party returned to Anchorage.
 In Anchorage, the Commission supplied the stoves, cooking utensils and other necessary articles to fit up a vacant hotel building into a hospital for the treatment of In dians ill with influenza. Not only were Indians living in and near Anchorage admitted to the hospital but natives from other towns along the line of the railroad were brought to Anchorage for treatment. Many natives were treated in tha hos