Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1918 — BEE STINGS KILL QUICKLY [ARTICLE]

BEE STINGS KILL QUICKLY

Aged Man Succumbs In Ten Minutes After Being Wounded in Wrist*. Philadelphia.—Ten minutes after he had been stung on both wrists by bees, Clarge L. Hume, slxty-slx years old, a resident of Santa Ana, Cal., died. I

The bees’ stings acted as a violent poison, physicians stated, probably because of Hume’s unusual physical condition. Hume was stung by the bees when he attempted to destroy a hive close to his home.

Physicians, when told of the peculiar case, stated that there was-a probability that the poison injected by the bees struck an artery and was immediately conveyed to the heart, causing death. It was also said that the bees* stings may have acted as a violent poison because of an unusual physical condition.

The physicians said that so sudden a death from bees* stings was very unusual.