Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKES. [ARTICLE]

BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKES.

Mrs. Silas Toombs of Barkley tp., a widow aged 70 years, was bitten on the band by a rattlesnake Monday shortly after noon while out hoeing melons. Before a physician could be got there the hand was badly swallen and the poison had begun to work on her system. The wound was cut open by the doctor and antidotes applied, and she is recovering at this writing. Still another case of rattlesnake bite occurred in Wheatfield tp., Monday, it is reported, Herman Clinger being the victim. He was bitten on the arm while out in the field and was hurried to Wheatfield where plenty of the official antidote dispensed at Mike Bernicken’s was given, and the patient is now as frisky as ever.