The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-08-30
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
BITTEN BY RArrLHsNAKE.
fhe Ssnsrings OF an Unfortunate
China mhmn.
OREANA, New. Aug. 2S.

AAoh Silver STATE --Onr little
onrg had qnite a SENSATION to day. 1t
was interesting. amusing and at the
same time melancholy. The facts are
as follows: This morning at 8 O'Clock
Chinalnan on the section between
Oreana aud Lovlock's was bitten ON
the end of one of his fingers by rattle
snake which was lying under the end
OF a tie which he had occasion to handle.
Ihe Cbinaman continued at his work
as usual until 6 o'clock this evening.
not making and great complaint in the
meantime. Soon after the bite he
showed his finger to the section boss,
but be. supposiDg the Chiuaman had
simply hurt it by an ordinary little ac-
cident OF almost daily occurrence, paid
no attention to it. About 6 O'Clock
this evening, after they had quit work
he became frantic with pain, and upon
inquiry Of Mr.. Rowley, the section
foreman, be was Informed that the Chi
naman had been bitten by a rattlesnake
and was shown the snake, which had
seven rattles aud which had been killed
this morning by the bitten Chinaman.
he and the other Celestials evidently
not knowing the serious nature of the
bite. The foreman being satisfied that
the Chinaman had been bitten by the
snake, gave the alarm and went to work
energetically to DO what he could for
the sufferer. BY this time the China
man 8 whole hand and arm were swo-
len fsightfully, and when Thomas
Rowley, j. II. Watts, Dr. Pollard, DIR.
f. p. Torrey, Mr.. Douglas and your
correspondent arrived at the Chinese
camp the poor sufferer was writhing in
the most excruciating pain. His cries
were most heartrendiog. although your
correspondent could not understand
word be said. The jlbber, confusion
and antics of his countpymen were
more fearful to witness If possible, than
the terrible cries and agony of the SUI.
ferer. Under these circumstances, as
Is natural, every man WAS ready aud
willing to lend helping hand. His
countrymen were not lacking in their
antidotes; they had eat off the snakes
head and three inches of its tail, made
a soup of them, and had given him two
doses of it before We arrived, aud, as we
entered their shanty, were in the act of
forcing the third dose down him by
means of funnel, but our entrance
caused pause. The patient at this
time Was uttering the most unearthy
yeils. Z. 2. Torrey asked Chinaman
who seemed to know, what he said
Chinaman--"Hesa say fall same me die
to drinkie rate snake soup" In the
meantime DIR. Pollard had sent Chi
naman for bucketful of mud to make
poultice for his hand and arm, aver.
ing that he never knew it to fail.
DIR. Torrey had dispatched messenger
to his wife for gallon of his best
brandy. The mud and the brandy ar
rived at the same moment, but while
DIR. Pollard was hunting around for
gunny sack for his poultice, Dr.. Torrey
had succeeded in pouring down the
Chinaman five large beer glassfnls of
his finest brandy. The sixth gIassful
of DIR. Torrey's brandy aud the first in
stallment of DR.. Pollard's mud poultice
were administered simultaneously, and
10 less than three minutes thereafter
the patient ceased his cries aud rawlings
and lay as calm as death; whether
through the effects of the bite of the
rattlesnake. the poison of the brandy
or the efficacy of Dir. Pollard's mud
pou!tice, your correspondent saith not
But one thing do know, and can say,
the other Cinnamon were alarmed more
than ever at this turn of affairs. and
four of them asked and received per-
mission OF Mr.. Rowley, section fore
man, to take hand-car to Iovlock's
Station for DIR. Hop Luck AT this
hour-S45 p. M, everybody and every
thing is as quiet as death. The patient
sleepeth, whether through the effects of
u.a h;.a tha brandy or the mad IL ia