Indianapolis (IN) News, April 23, 1900, p. 11. AN EPIDEMIC OF PNEUMONIA Salem, Ind., April 23-Cornelius Spaulding, Sr., and his wife, an aged couple living near this city, died of pneumonia and were interred in the same grave. A brother of Mr. Spaulding and a sister of Mr. Spaulding have since been stricken with the same disease and are not expected to survive. They are quite old. There are a number of other cases of pneumonia in that neighborhood while several have died.