Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — La Grippe Was Ub' qnitous. [ARTICLE]

La Grippe Was Ub' qnitous.

It is one thing to have .the grip in town or anywhere on the mainland within reach of a doctor, and another thing to be stricken with the disease on a remote isle of the sea. On a Thursday morning recently the inhabitants of Grand Manan, a large, well-populated island off the Maine coast.jjpbserved a single fire—the sick signal—burning on the Three Isles, six miles seaward, but as a gale was blowing and the sea running high nobody could land there. On Sunday evening a physician, accompanied by three sturdy oarsmen in a dory, reached the isles in a blinding snowstorm. Fifteen of the sixteen inhabitants were sick abed, leaving one man barely able to crawl to the headland and keep the signal burning. It was three days before the weather moderated sufficiently to allow the relief party to return home, and in that time the sick were relieved.