Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CLAY CITY, Ind., March 16. – There are now only two or three cases of smallpox here and business has almost fully recovered. Traveling men who have been missing the place since the quarantine began are again making their rounds here and there is little fear of a further spread of the disease. There is only one new case this week, that of Wiley Luther, whose house was carded yesterday.
“Recovering From The Plague,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 17 March 1900, p. 2, col. 4; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 6 December 2014).


Well, WordPress got away from me. How frightening this whole epidemic must have been.
I agree, and some people just seemed really clueless. I know medicine has come a long way since 1900 but we did know things about spreading germs back then!
How frightening thi