Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — THE SIAMESE TWINS. [ARTICLE]

THE SIAMESE TWINS.

Particulars of their Death—One Outlives the Other Only Two Hours. New York, January 20. A special from Richmond, Va., makes the announcement of the sudden death of the celebrated Siamese Twins on Saturday morning, the 17th inst., at their residence at Mount Airy, Surrey Couuly, N. C. Chang was par tially paralyzed last fall, since which time he has been fretful, very much debilitated, and strongly addicted to drinking liquor, as a means of alleviating his sufferings. He had been quite feeble for several days, so much so as to confine the brothers to their bed. On Friday night Chang became worse, and, expired suddenly about four o’clock on Saturday morning. Eng became so terribly shocked that he raved wildly for a while. This attack was followed by what seemed to be a deadly stupor, and in two hours, it is supposed, from the death of Chang, Eng breathed his last. The wives and families of the twins are in the deepest grief, and the children, many of whom are deaf mutes, express their sorrow in the most pitiful manner.