The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-09
WHOLESALE POISONING.
Fourteen Residents Of Cincinnati Poisoned.
Ono Fatally, by Food Procured at Gro.
cery-One OF the Grocer's Family Among
the Victims.


Fourteen Residents Of Cincinnati Poisoned,
Ono Fatally, by Food Procured at q Gro.
cery-One OF the Grocer's Family Among
the Victims.
CINCINNATI, o., Oct. 81.
There have been several cases of mys.
terious poisoning in the West End within
the last few weeks in the vicinity of Clark
street, west Of Freeman street, in this city.
The number has increased until fourteen
persons have been more or less affected and
one has died. 1t is naturally causing great
CONSERVATION in the neighborhood, especi-
ally now that one death has resulted. The
first cases were in the family of c. r. Do
gan, Post-office clerk, who lives at S29
Clark street. His wife purchased some
bread and milk from NJ. Weller's grocery,
at 321 Clark street, Of which the whole fam
lily, consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. Dogan and
six children, partook for supper Monday
night They also ate some meat which was
purchased from a butcher on Freeman
avenue, between Clark and Oehler. About
$3.50, shortly after eating supper, all the
children, ranging in age from one to ten
years, were taken violently i'll, vomiting
and complaining of pains in the stomach
and abdomen. DR.. Abbott, who lives just
across the street, was called, and pro-
nounced the sickness the effects of poison.
The children continued very sick until
aboat three the next morning, when they
began to recover, and all are now nearly
well. Yesterday morning Mrs. Surveyor
Lehman, who lives at 333 Clark street, pur-
chased bread and milk from Weller's gro
Gerry, of which she, her husband and
two children, aged, respectively, eighteen
months and three years, ate at breakfast.
Both of the little children were taken i'll
Immediately after, both vomiting and
shrieking with pain. The little boy, the
older of the children, after few hours be-
gan to recover, but the little girl, Alice,
continued to grow worse until 6 a. III. to-
day, when she died. TIE family was also
treated by DIR. Abbott. Two Misses Davis,
young ladies, who live at 81 Clark street,
who partook of bread and milk from the
same grocery at 10 a. m. yesterday, were
affected in the same way, and are still in
critical condition, though it is believed they
will recover.
The wife and child of w. II. Lonsdorf,
general broker, who lives at $40 Clark
street, Just across the alley from the gro
Gerry, ate of bread and milk and other gro
reries from there yesterday, and both were
Ill, having the same symptoms as the 9TH
ers. The child has nearly recovered, but
Mrs. Lonsdorf was still unable to rise from
her bed this morning.
A child of Mr.. Asher, on Hopkins street,
and one child of Weller, the grocer, are also
i'll in the same way and under similar cir
cumstances. In all there were fourteen
cases in the immediate neighborhood, all of
which had partaken of bread and milk and
other groceries from NJ. Weller's, and it is
the general impression that the illness is
caused from some poison which found its
way into one or more of the articles. This
opinion is conceded with by DIR. Abbott,
and an analysis will be made of the articles
to determine what il is. Within eighteen
months similar case of apparent poison.
Ing from food occurred in the West End,
but without fatal result.