Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — BEES SWARMED IN HIS BEARD [ARTICLE]

BEES SWARMED IN HIS BEARD

An Aged Pennsylvanian Stung to Death by the Insects Before Help Could Come. Pittsburgh, Pa —Jpremlah Kramer, seventy-two years old and half blind, ran into a big swarm of bees which were about to swarm on a projecting beam in his wagon shed on Wind Gap road. Instead of taking to the beam the bees enveloped Kramer and plied upon his face and long whiskers. > Kramer yelled for help and fought the bees as best he could, but he was soon helpless from their stings. The onslaught of the bees rendered him unconscious apd he was found by bis son three hours later lying on the wagon shed floor with the myriads of bees on his head, arms and neck, which were swollen twice their nafliral size. Although medical aid was hurriedly summoned Kramar died.