People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — Baby Killed by a Rattler. [ARTICLE]

Baby Killed by a Rattler.

Winchester, 0.. July 3.—Mrs. Henry Wulford, living in Bratton township, was sitting in her front yard sewing while her 3-year-old baby was playing in the tall grass nearby. Suddenly the mother was startled by a cry from the child. The little one then began to laugh and said: "'Mamma, look.” Mrs. Wulford looked and saw a large rattlesnake, with its head raised and looking at the child. The mother screamed and at the same time the reptile lunged forward and struck the child, sinking its fangs in the little one’s neck. The child lingered in terrible agony until Saturday morning, when it died.