In a disaster that would be repeated a century later, a worldwide epidemic (known as the Spanish Flu) killed more than 1,400 Denverites in 1918 and 1919.
-Courtesy Tom “Dr. Colorado” Noel
- Image: https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/denver/denvers-influenza-pandemic-1918
- More from Historic Denver’s Molly Brown House: https://mollybrown.org/spanish-flu-of-1918/