Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
WITH TWO HEADS.
One at Each End Of the Body-The
Wonder Alive, with no Indica-
lions Of Dying.
Nore Remarkable than the Siamese Twina
One-Half May be Sleeping while the
Other is Lying Awake.
Cincinnati Enquirer.


FRANKFORT, IND, June 27.-UD-
doubtedly one of the greatest and prob
ably the strangest wonders in the way of
human birth now in existence occurred
Tuesday night. The parents of this
curious freak of nature are Mr.. and
Mrs. Jones, who live about FIVE miles
north of Kempton, in Upton county
They are young married folks, probably
about thir ty years of age, and this is the
mothers second confinement, the first
child being two years old and nothing
abnormal about its development. Your
correspondent visited the Jones home
yesterday. He found the house crowded
with curiosity seekers, no less than one
hundred persons having visited the great
center of attraction during the day. Che
babe, or babes, lay calmly and peace
fully on the bed in room adjoining the
mother, and TO all outward appearances
were
ENJOYING LIFE
az well as anybody. The monstrosity
for such it is, and a wonderful one, too.
consists Of single, continuous body, on
each end of which is well formed head.
1t is provided with four arms and four
legs, which are also well formed and
about the normal size and shape. The
arms are located at the proper place and
on natural shoulders, one pair at each
end Of the long body but the lower limbs
protrude outward from each side at the
middle Of the elongated being. The two
heads face the same way, anu the legs
are so attached as to extend at right
crla In
body.
There is but one ambitious, that being
on the anterior surface and middle Of the
body, showing that the entire form has
been nourlshed through one and the
same cord during the entire period of en-
bryonic life. The sex of this curiously
constructed being is female, with
ONE SET OF ORGANS
on each side, and the general ap-
pearance of the entire body is that of two
children so intimately joined together at
the pelvis that the line of junction is al
most invisible, yet something about it
exists which goes to prove that it has
been thus joined since the time of con-
ception, and not the result of the grow
ing together of two separate fetuses.
There is duplicity in so far as there
are two heads, two pair Of limbs, two |
sets of genital organs and that the vol
untary movements of the two portions |
are not IN conformity. On the other |
hand, there was but one umbilical cord, |
and the junction of the two halves pre-
sents no line of original separation to
prove that the being has been joined to-
gether from the start.
ONE-HALF OF THE CREATURE
may be sleeping while the other is awake,
and at such times it is noticed that one
leg on each side conforms to the other
vOluntary.m of the end of the
body nearest TO them; or, in other
words, the two legs on the same side of
the body are not controlled by one-half.
The entire length of the body from head
70 head is about two feet, and the weight
of the creature is twelve pounds, fig
ures which show ample size and weight
for two healthy children. Up to the
present writing the babe or babes is or
are enjoying good health, and the
mother, small-sized woman, is doing
very well.