Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — WHAT A MOTHER FOUND. [ARTICLE]

WHAT A MOTHER FOUND.

Three Children Killed by a Rattlesnake’s Bite and One Drowned, A farmer named Wilson, living in Madi. son county, Ga., left home and went to the mill, leaving his wife and four children at home. Two hours later he returned, to find his wife lying on tho floor, insensible, with four dead children about her. The story the mother told when restored to consciousness was a remarkable one. She said she had taken the baby to the spring, leaving the other children in the house. Hearing their cries, she put the baby down and hurried back to the house, where she found two dead, the others dying. The living one said they had been poking their fingers through a crack in the floor and a hen had been picking at them. The mother went back to the spring after her baby and found it had fallen into the spring and drowned. Tho /third child had died when she got back to the house and tho mother swooned away. Investigation showed that the supposed hen was a rattlesnake. Over 50 of the 150 miners caught by an explosion in a Welsh mine have been rescued and twelve bodies recovered.