Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1879 — Coincident Deaths of Playmates. [ARTICLE]

Coincident Deaths of Playmates.

We are informed by a gentleman of the following peculiar circumstance which has taken place on Munjoy hill, in this city, within the week just passed: “Three boys, living as above, ranging in age from 2 to 4 years, have been bosom friends and companions, playing in a party by themselves, and each striving to please the others in every way. During the fore part of last week one of their number died suddenly with croup, and his death, as may be imagined, was sadly felt by the remaining two. At the funeral they both, with their parents, occupied prominent places among the circle of mourners, showing every symptom of deep grief at the loss of their playmate. All at once they began to cry violently, and, on being questioned, gave the somewhat ludicrous answer, saying they ‘ wanted a casket, same as has got.’ A few days after their friend’s burial, one of the two boys sickened and died with the same terrible disease, and at the present time the last of the three friends lies dangerously ill from the same cause.— Portland (Me.) Press.