The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1920-02-28
Epidemic Over

Call for aid from the Red Cross
corps took several volunteer nurses
to Albert last week where Probate
Judge A. F. Chavez and his family
and several other families were i'll,
some very seriously. Help is still pro-
vided them and they are reported inn
proving.
One Of the most distressing cases
was discovered at the home Of Juan
Jose Trujillo, at his ranch, IL miles
northwest of Roy where the whole
family of eighteen were sick with no
one to care for them. The ranch is a
picturesque place in the Red River
brakes and isolated so that no one
knew of their illness for several days
One daughter, wife Of Jose G. Mae
stas, died from pneumonia last week
leaving four small children. The rest
are all convalescing and, under the
care of friends who hastened to the
rescue, and aided by supplies from the
Red Cross they are now being well
cared for. Mrs. Trinidad Lucero, al
though past eighty years of age went
out from her home in Roy and is help
ing care for them. Trinidad McGrath
and his wife who is daughter of the
family, are also there. They knew
nothing of their misfortune until af-
ter the death Of her sister.
This family sent two soldiers, to
the front in France, both Of whom are
home and ministering to the sick chill
dren of the home with tenderness
as touching as their conduct on the
battlefield was heroic. Both were i'll
and their wan features still bear the
marks of suffering The Esquibel fam
lily, in the same locality, have also
been seriously i'll and Mrs. VIM. c.
Roy and others were sent out in cars
donated to the Red Cross service and
are caring for them.
Waldo Norris has so far recovered
from pneumonia under careful nurs-
ing as to be able to sit up again.
Sam Strong, the most desperate
case to survive, is on the highway to
recovery. His case was given up as
hopeless by the physicians but his
sister, Mrs. Kate Dunbar, who was
called from the Tucumcari Hospital,
where she is employed as a nurse,
never for a moment lost hope,and her
skill and knowledge, applied with the
courage of hope, aided by the serum
administered by the Trinidad physt-
clan, and the prayers of a host of
friends, all combined to pull him thru
Mrs. Dunbar and her sister, Mrs.
White, of Albion, Nebraska, left on
Tuesday in the assurance of his re-
covery.
The organization of the Red Cross
Home Service has been disbanded and
new cases coming in, where help is
ended, will be cared for by the Sec
retary as needs require. 1t has been
the most strenuous siege in the hiss
tory of Roy and we believe the town
and community has acquitted itself
with credit-that the Big Ideal which
has been the power behind the Red
Cross, has been chrystalized into real
deeds, that has "no hidden or uncer-
tain meaning" 1t has embodied fra
ternity in "Acts of humanity" They
have gone to the rescue of suffering
humanity regardless Of race or creed
where the chance of saving life was
evenly balanced with the chance of
losing their own, and they have ex-
emplified the teachings and practices
of the Great Author of Christianity
Ito dwell on these things is to for
get the wrongs, sins and falsehoods
Of humanity and they point to a fu-
ture in which selfshness, ayarice and
greed will have smaller part than in
the past.