The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-19
Swallowed a 6nake--It Lived in
the Stomach.
from the Vancouver Independent


The heroine of this remarkable occur
renee Is Mrs. Sarah Linderner, who
lives on Reserve street, Vancouver. She
came there in September last trom
Camp Bdwell, Modoc County, Califor-
MIA, where she had previously resided
with her husband on a ranch. She re-
lates the story substantially as follows {:
One day in the month of March, a year
ago, she had been washing during the
day, and when night came was tired and
thirsty. Not having any water in the
house she took a cup and repaired to
spring, or hole in the ground, where her
husband had sunk a barrel, near small
creek.
The dusk Of evening had faded into
darkness, rendering it impossible for her
| to see what might be in the cup when
she drank. She drank deep draught
| from the cup and felt something wig
Cling down her throat, seemingly about
the size of q h0rse-hair and two or three
inches long. She attempted 10 raise it
| up, but could not, and thinking it would,
if an animal, be unable to live in her
stomach, for the time being dismissed
the subject from her mind. Three or
four months thereafter she began to
manifest symptoms similar to aggra-
vated dyspepsia, terrible burnings and
pressure in the stomach, and constant
cravings for food and yet never satisfied.
| like one afflicted with tnpe-worm. She
was treated from time to time for her
troubles, but for q long time would Lot
think that she had
A SNAKE IN HER STOMACH.
She came to Vancouver with her hus-
band last fall, In the meantime her
troubles increasing. ana, for the past
three months, assuming the most fright
tul symptoms. She could feel the ami
NAL moving about in her stomach, clearly
manltesting its presence by unmistak.
able evidences, such as biting her
stomach severely, and rendering her
almost beside herself with pain and
horror. The animal would seize hold of
the lining of her stomach and bite until
some warm food or drink was admins
tered to the patient, when it would sub
side and be quiet.
The poor oman was kept almost con-
stantly eating and dosing for the benefit
of his snakesnip, and it may easily be
imagined that her life was one round OF
unmitigated horror. Despairing of a
cure she wrote to a California physician,
who sent her prescription, which was
simply to starve herself and drink moth.
ing but brandy. Friday morning of last
week March 17), after having suffered
teartully the day previous, she began the
new regimen. Building up hot fire
she dosed heavily with the liquor anG
reclined on the floor, with her iaoe close
10 the fire. Along in the forenoon, sh'
| became deadly sick at the stomach ant
vomited violently. After several severe
retchings, she felt
| THE SNAKE COMING UP.
Its head was SO near her mouth ae L,
| impede her breathing, when, rising t.
her feet in agony anu leaning her hea,
against the mantelpiece directly over tn
fire, she thrust her fingers down he
throat, sire ching it to its widest ten
sion, and the snake glided from he
mouth, and Tell into the hot GOALS OF fir
below, and was burned up. Atthis tim'
there was no one present but CIR
twelve years old, and she did net dare t.
take the animal from the fire, and tn
woman tainted away.
The snake is described as closely re
sembling q common garter-sRake, an,
was about sixteen inches In length.
thrust its tongue from its mouth as
came forth and squirmed In livel,
manner, when it feii into the fire. On
or two Of the neighbors were called in
and they say the coil of the snake wa
plainly visible, in its entire shape, upol
| the Goals OF fire. the woman, who ha
pined away from one hundred and eight,
pounds to q living skeleton, feels a won
derful sense of reliet in getting rid OF tn
loathsome reptile.