DEATH FROM SMALLPOX
Second One Occurs at Clay City – Sev-
eral New Cases Reported.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind., Feb. 19. – Mrs. Sarah Reed, aged thirty-five years, who lived at Clay City, died to-day of confluent smallpox. This is the second death in this county from the disease.

Several new cases have been reported in Clay City, and it is feared that it will prove more malignant than the disease has been in the past.

“Death From Smallpox,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 20 February 1900, p. 2, col. 5; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 6 December 2014).