Verkkoa man who got stuck in his car during the deadly buffalo blizzard last week is being hailed as a hero for saving more than a dozen lives. Verkkoanchorage, alaska (ap) — a deadly epidemic had gripped a gold rush town in the impenetrable u. s. Territory of alaska nearly 90 years ago,. Verkkowhen jay withey, a mechanic in the town of cheektowaga, found himself among the scores of people trapped in their cars during the storm, he broke. Verkko― seattle times when a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through nome, alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin,. Verkkonearly a century ago, the discovery of a deadly and highly contagious disease in a remote alaskan town sparked a heroic effort to deliver an.
