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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1918)
VOL. IV College Station, Texas, MILITARY BOSPITAL WILL BE BUILT SOON APPROVAL OF LONG DELAYED PRO JECT IS SECURED FROM WAR DEPARTMENT BY PRES. - BIZZELL AT CAPITOL. After a delay of several months the war department has finally given its formal ap proval to the construction of a modernly equipped military hospital on the Campus that will cost in the neighborhood of $50,- 000. While it will be only a frame structure, similar to base hospitals in army cantonments, it will be made thoroughly comfortable in every way and will be pro vided with all the latest equipments, in cluding screened- porches for convalescents and sleeping quarters for members of the medical staff. It was to secure immediate action on this project and some other important mat ters which it had been impossible to ad just by correspondence that President Biz- zell went to Washington last Saturday and his telegram to Secretary Bailey yester day announcing the success of his mission, will be welcome information to all College people who have seen the inconveniences that have resulted in the last ten days from inadequate hospital facilities. CLARENCE BROOKS DIES AT CAMP PIKE. Clarence Brooks, 24 years old, former instructor in Auto Mechanics for the Training Detachment at College, but who later entered the Officer's Training School at Camp Pike, Ark., died there of ^pneu monia Wednesday. While a native of Georgetown, he had spent most of his life at Houston, where he is survived by his father, Judge R. E. Brooks, and other rel atives. He made many friends on the Campus during his residence here and was a high class instructor. Friday, October 11, 1918. No. 2^ NINE SCLDIERS DIE OF PNEUMONIA IN A DAY MALADY REAPS HEAVY TOLL AS SIT UATION REACHES ITS CRISIS —FEW NEW CASES DE VELOPING. Nine soldiers, all members of the Train ing Detachment, died on the Campus in the 24-hour period ending at noon Thurs day, being a larger number than had died altogether prior to that time. This un- Tisual rate is believed to be due to the fact that so many of the patients reached their crisis about the same time and were un able to pass it successfully. In spite of the depressing influence which so many deaths naturally creates, the physicians in charge express the belief that the crisis of the whole epidemic .has passed, barring the advent of unfavorable weather. All these deaths had been expected for two or three days and the favorable symptoms lie in the fact that few new cases are de veloping and few of the old cases that have not been serious from the outset are becoming so. A resume of the deaths, all among mem bers of the Training Detachment, follows: Harold Main, 22, of Stillwater, Okla., member of Co. C, died at 2:10 Wednesday afternoon. He came to College as an auto mechanic about three months ago and is survived by his mother, Mrs. George Main of Stillwater, whence his body was forwarded at midnight Wednesday night. William A. Childress, 22, member of Co. A, from Muskogee, Okla., passed away at 5:10 Wednesday afternoon. He had been in the auto mechanics school for two months and is survived by his mother, Mrs. B. Gregory. The body was forwarded to his old home for burial. Irvin A. Carroll, Co. A, 28 years old, and whose home was at Beaumont, died at 8 o’clock Wednesday night. Present at his bedside when he died were brother-