Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — INJUNS HAVE THE GRIP. [ARTICLE]

INJUNS HAVE THE GRIP.

Tuscaroras Prostrated The Reservation Overrun with Garter Snakes. Garter snakes and the grip have descended on the Tuscarora reservation near Lockport, N. Y., and the Indians, their squaws and papooses are in a bad way. They have suffered severely during the last two weeks, and a number of the victims have died Nearly twothirds of all the Indians on the reservation are prostrat a with the grip, wh ch takes the form of a fever, accompanied with fearful jains in the head, arms and legs. There seems to be little relef, and those who survive aro left weak and powerless. With the stanch characteristics of the race, the Tu.-caroras have refused to ask their white neighbors for aid, and their affliction was discovered onlv by the remarkable demand for patent medicines for use on the reservation. The medicine men of the tribe have also been making alleged remedies from roots and herbs gathered by the few members who were able to be about, and barrels of the stuff have been swallowed by the sufferers.