, 1874-02-16
THE LAKE TRAGEDY,
Death Of Another Child.
Tho Nurse Suffering from the Same Sick
ness--.The Cause Yet Unknown.

A shocking tragedy occurred Friday, In tho
Town Of Laho, III tho houao Of David Tllompsonr
wl,oHo wifo was confnotl to her bod with u yot,ng
babo, md was being nursod by Qnrinan womals'
,ametl Susan Dohrons. A ho!gllbor called to Boc
Mrs. Thompson Friday afternoon, and, finding
no signs Of lifo about tho holao. forced hor on-
tra,,co, wllon sho WEB horriiiod at tho discovery
OF two of tho children doad, third dying, tho
motho1 inBeuBiblo, aud tho nurao In an idiotio
condition.
Tho third member Of tho family died yesterday
morning Ut o'clock, aud It Is to DO hoped That
Nellie Thompson IL tho laHt viotim Ut this most
incomprohousiblo tragcdy.
THE CAUSE.
Thcro sooms to bo ITO settled opinion among
tho medical mon aH to tho ca,lso OF 1eatl, but
tho general decision inclinos to bp that 1t result
cd from nsphyxin, and this fB tho Judgment Of
tho afflicted father, Tho residents Of tho Town
Of Lake aro suspicious that tits caao of poison
Of Catharno Dohrona.
M1ts. 71roMrsoE
Ia attended by DR.. Decehcr, and lis said to be i'm
proving Howly, though lcr chango for tho bot
tor IL scarcely rercoptiblo to otlerB than thoao
familiar with hor. Though still a1frorlng from
do1nontia, Hho iB fortunately qrtpt Bava whom
thoughts of her children occupy her brain. While
temporurllv in her mind she Frequently asks in
has bocomo Ut thonl. Those III attendance an
swer hor questions by statiig that thoy aro
carod for by tneir grandmother, which sootheB
hor into u restless s!ambor, from wliuh aho Ia
again disturbed by tho oyor-rccur1iug thought.
THE INFANT
was tho loaBt affected by tho mysterious agent
TINT las been tho 1noans Of killing ono-hnlf Of
this family, aud Is regarded to bo out Of daugor,
rosT-11oNTEM EXAMINATION
will be nude by Dr., 1lonrotin, this morning. Of
tho body Of tho ono WHO died yesterday morning.
with tho hopo TINT if polaon was administered
1t will hive doyolopcd itsolf sufficiently to DO
recognized. Tile report WAS currout at late
hour last night TINT
who il suspected, lad died about o'clock. 4
Tn1nuNE reporter tracod tho alleged fact to its
aourco, mud aBcortained it to DO without founda-
tion. ln tho pursuit. Of his investigation he
visited the house OF Mrs. Dohrens, on burnside
atrcot, two loora north Of Tlirty-oighth. Tho
woman was found afflicted with symptoms
identical with those that It ls sad preceded
tho death OF Willie Thompson, and was
complained particularly Of q dizzlnoss in her
| head, and tint hor body and limbs were raoked
with tho most oxcrucatng pains. The physicians
who have yistod hor olfor 70 oxplanntio9 Of the
tho Bnmo mystery attending, tho death Of the
by 0'YssA Gor dcatl1. i'A She m states io tint she
s ray IN aud her oo6f f4sus 70 o,eee to TINT 'psaa npo
her relonao from custody, thoy discovered hcr to
bo 60 nenrly pnralyzed US to require assistance to
enable her to reach home. Her husband, who
was present, stated that lor sickness manifoaled
| itHelf whom sho had arrived at their homo, md
that sle had grown gradually wealor, being un-
nblo to retnin any food on her stomach, and nj
footed with an uuconquorablo nausea for
overy substance TINT would tend to re-
Htoro hor to health and strength. 1t
Boenis that Blle had been nursing patients for
| Ro;nn linn 1nirn forced thDr0to in c0MBe01,enco
Of tho inability Of Bohrons to work, on account
OF serious injury received during tile fall
| Tho case is shroutled III tho doopeat myHtery,
aud its solution is reserved to tho medical pro-
fcsBion, who aro deonly Interested in tho Coron-
not poison that waa used IL comprising tho
death OF the three victims, could it be nBphyxia7
! II it is not asphyxia, Nllat is it2