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Article: Recalling 1918's perilous plague Survivors of pandemic experienced panic, loss in widespread infection.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2005
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Byline: Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
Edna Cary, 100, remembers vividly when the Spanish flu pandemic swept through her town.
"People were dying like flies, whole families were wiped out," said Cary, who now lives in Denver. "It was really terrible."
Cary, who entered high school that fall of 1918, recalls that "everything was shut. All the churches, all the movie houses, the theaters. Some stores were open, but everybody was so sick, I don't see how you could get to a store anyhow."
That long ago summer in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the flu swept through her house as well.
"Oh, it took everything out of you," Cary said. "It ...