Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — A Family Dies in an Hour. [ARTICLE]

A Family Dies in an Hour.

A correspondent of .loluumesburg, Africa, sends a ghastly message concerning a series Qf fiitglities whereby a resident lost Ids yvVole family in the gintye. of an hqur. Ti'ire.e children left (the fiotise tq gq to their fsttber, a furuL it. w|io was In a field near the house. The three put their hands in a crevice of the rocks to obtain birds’ eggs. In this crevice was a deadly snake, which bit 'all the three. Two of them died befon* the third could get home to tell the mother what had happened. The mother, frantic .with grief, tried to lift the third child on a horse to gallop for help. She pushed- him too far; he fell over on the. other side, fractured his skull and died Instantly. The mother re-entered the house and fouud a fourth child had fallen info the bath and been drowned, i'he whole family died witbhi one hour.