Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1918 — “Dead” Brother Very Much Alive. [ARTICLE]

“Dead” Brother Very Much Alive.

Benjamin Bennick of Brooklyn went to Cornell’s morgue at Hempstead and was positive that the body of a man who had died at Camp Mills of Spanish influenza was that of his brother, Louis Bennick. “ The dead man had been registered as William Bennick, so Benjamin was told to go to the base hospital at Mineola to make sure it was his brother whp had died. He went and was cooducted to a ward. His brother, about to be discharged, jumped up from a cot and kissed him. Then Benjamin kissed all the patients, the doctor* all the nurses who had not flown? and finished up by fainting.