Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — A Faintly Dies In an Hour. [ARTICLE]

A Faintly Dies In an Hour.

A correspondent of Johannesburg. Africa, sends a ghastly message concerning a series of fatalities whereby e resident lost his whole family In the space of an hour. Three children left ihe house to go to tneir father, a fanner, who 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, whlc’j hit all the three. Two of them died before* 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 sot 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 found a fourth child had fallen Into the bath and been drowned. The whole fam. ily died within one hour.