INFLUENZA

SIX INFLUENZA VICTIMS AT DELMAR

DELMAR, Oct. 14 - Delmar is a sadly stricken town.  Six homes contained a corpse yesterday.   Two funerals were held, that of Leolin Hastings and Miss Ida Hill.  Two deaths occurred on Saturday, one an adopted child in the family of  Carroll Ashmead, and the other, Harry E. Hastings, a railroad brakeman.  He leaves a wife and several small children.  He was the son of Charles E. Hastings, a Delaware Division engineer.  James N. Williams died suddenly yesterday.  He was formerly a baggage-master on the N. Y., P. & N., but has not been in active service for several months.  A wife and three sons survive him, Ernest P. Williams, in the railway mail service, William J. Williams of Baltimore, and Louis Williams at home.

above from the Evening Journal 4 Oct 918.