Wichita Falls, Waxahachie, Houston and Corsicana.
By late October, the Spanish Flu had reached the Panhandle with the death of the president of Wayland Baptist College in Plainview on the 28th, and El Paso, where the number of cases neared 5,000 by the 23rd. On the 29th, the State Health Department reported 106,978 cases and 2,181 deaths and that was just in the cities.
Galveston’s response to the w…
