The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-01
Further Fatalities from Eating Dis'
essed Pork Among Residents OF MIN
ueOta MINI.

neota, MINI.
MIySEoTA, MINI, January 27.--No new
victims have yet been added 10 the iist OF
fatalities attending the trichiniasis outbreak
here. but several who were stricken are
still lingering on the brink. Investigation
discIoscs the fact that there can be no doubt
that the presence OF trichlna in the hogs
was solely due 20 a diet OF rats. MI.
pickles. the village butcher, has during
the mast year paid special attention 10
breeding swine, and IL Is conceded that
the porkers he has placed on the market
during the fall . and winter have been
most excellent in appearance, causing gen.
eral comment. In the early summer the
hogs. some forty in number, were kept IN
large pen adjoining the stable ana
slauphter-bouse, the ofal from the latter
place being thrown in the pen. AT the
time the building was infested with rats,
which were extensively slaughtered, and
these also were thrown to the hogs. Later
I'm the season the hogs were removed 10
ward near the river, rs was also the slallgh-
terinp business. From this time the hogs
made an excellent showing, and, rather
strange TO relate OF swine afflicted
with tricbina, gave not the least
swine thus afflicted. Mr.. Pickles began to
slaughter his hog. late in November, and
thew were placed on the local market about
the middle Of December. The first victim
TO the disease was Mr.. Cushner, father
in-law OF the butcher Pickles and living
with him. lie was Ill for some time, I'M
suspecting the cause. and on December
2Gtb DR.. Grosbeck, Of Marshall, was sum-
moned to his aid He was then suffering
intense agony, with limbs terribly swollen,
and it was supposed he was afflicted with
acute rheumatism. The patient died JAM
uary I'd, no one having suspicion OF
trichina.
IL was on the above date that 4 large par
ty, including GroSbeck, met in the saloon
of Joseph Wilfort and ate raw smoked
ham. BY way OF joke, the ham was
stolen from Pickles. smOke-house and car
ried TO the saloon, where Pickles was in
vited to come and partake. In few days
all were more or less i'll. Or. Grosbeck
was confined TO his bed soon after his ar
rival home, and has since been considered
dangerously i'll, but is now improving.
Joseph WiIiort went to his home in New
Ulm, where he was treated for typhoid
fever, and died January Goth. 1t
was not until his burial That the
physician suspected trichin9, and then
he cut piece OF flesh from the
arm, and, subiecting it to a micro
scopic test, found it 10 contain from five
thousand to six thousand parasites TO the
square inch. In the mean time Frederick
Pregger had died, January IL, at Candy,
where he had gone and was stricken down.
These are the fatalities TO date, but the
physicians state that in all probability the
following cases will result fatally DR..
SandersOn, young Norwegian physician
of ten years practice; Detlow Seideriitz, the
druggist; William Cushner, son OF the
first victim; Katie Cushner, a sister Of the
latter. The case OF Jacob Cushner, a
younger brother, and Antonio Winter are
doubtful. A German, name unknown, can
not live. Seventeen were stricken. The
State Board is directing a thorough invcsti-
CATION, but is not yet ready to report.