Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1908 — FOUR CHILDREN DIE. [ARTICLE]

FOUR CHILDREN DIE.

Diphtheria Causes Death of Members of Baurk Family.» Winamac, Ind., Dec. 16.—Anna, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Baurk, living southwest of here, is dead of diphtheria. She is the fourth child of the family to die of the disease lately. There were fourteen children in the family and at one time recently eleven of the children were in bed with diphtheria. After a few day’s illness Lena, age ten; Ella sixteen; Addle, age four, and Anna, age thirteen, succumed, while several of the others of the family will be affected for life. An epidemic of diphtheria is raging in the southwest part of the county.