Raleigh, Oct. 23—Raleigh’s death list from pneumonia
following influenza reached an even 100 with the eight reported between the
suns of October 21 and 22, and Camp Polk furnishes two of the men, one a negro
and the other a white.
Oliver Kernick of Sioux City, Ia., is the latest soldier to
fall and yesterday when the local undertakers were swamped again they called in
volunteers, who were themselves overcome when the young wife of the splendid
fellow following the body, wrapped in the flag for which he died, came up with
the few whom feel the duty of caring for the dead, and set out for her Arkansas
home, where the young man of 30 will be buried.
The quarantine at the camp has been lifted and there are no
new cases but the death of these soldiers followed illness that drove them to
the hospital a week ago. The negro soldier is the first of his race at the camp
to die.
Three deaths have occurred at the State Hospital and several
of these reported in the records are not Raleigh people. Nevertheless, no city
in the state has been worse afflicted, not even Wilmington. There are now
perhaps 1,500 cases in Raleigh, and many with pneumonia who have but small
chance to live.
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