The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-17
POISONED BY AN INSECT.
THE BITE or 4 IBOUSAND-LEGG ED
WORM KILLS MISS EAG8M

She Felt Something Crawling on Her Face,
and Brushed on tue Worm blood Poll
ponlnE ami Death Ensurd Quickly.
Miss Lauro EaCan Of Erie street, Jersey City,
was bi,ton laRt Thursday 10y n thOusnnd-loGged
worm. and died Tuesday evening from the
effects. 1t is said. OF the bite. The insect be-
longs TO tho family OF ccntipcdes is about two
inches long, OF reddish color, and is very
repulsive looking. 1t has sixty pairs OF legs.
Miss Engan lived with her parents in ~ Cat at
1A3 Erie street She was 20 years old, and was
pretty and popular Her father is clork In the
Office Of tho Jersey City Board OF Tx Commits
sionors. Inst Thursday evening Miss EaGan
and her mother went out and sat Il the stone
stops in front OF their apartments. They had
been sitting there nearly an hour whom tho
young woman felt something creeping on her
face. She quickly brushed her cheek with her
hand. thousand logged worm fell In her
mothers Lap dead. Tho following morning
Mise Eagan felt an itching on the spot, where
she first felt the insect, and She scratched it.
Not long afterwaid q rimp'e with a tiny hole
her mouth. That was within quarter OF an
inch OF the spot where she thought the INSECT
she sSt hrd%sh her cck
Saturday morning the pimple hnl increased
in size and resembled a boil. 1t panied her all
the time, and her mother covered 1t with sui
phur save. All Saturday It increased in size
and tho pain ,he,a anne intense. SATURDAY. night
store and AJAX the druggist what to do. Tho
druREist told her It was nothing buy boil ana
t. GS5 sRd d d sSnda Hnd S all ,Gs
fight side. OF her lace was swollen and in
famed, he told her father, then q the Incl;
dent OF Thu sday niGht; aud said she guessed
was called ID, and he, decided that She was sgf-
ferng from blood poi 7oning. the result OF the
insects bite lie ordered the usual remedies.
shortly after he h9d gone away she be,
w NJ. IurICk. and they
had n consultation. Dr. Narick lnnced
the check and took IRON 1t two ounces OF mat
Monday she had Il high lever She BECAME
conscious for little wh!le and recognized her
mother. She reached out 10, her, pulled her
for me- mother" That was tho last she said.
She became unconscious again shortly after
ward. aud remained so until she died OF ex-
A Sun reporter talked with Dr. \arick last
night He said that there was no doubt IN his
mind that Miss Eagan,,S death was the, result
persons who had been bitten by insects. he
sad but mono before who had been bitten by q
thousand. legged worm Miss Eagan had Ia al
the sympt9ms, he said OF a person suffering
DR.. Hoffman said that Miss Eagnn's Illness
was similar to W lat would have resulted from
the 6to Of black SPIDER S Eo ne ha Inc been
have saved her lie. The poison had gone oil
through her system when he got there. ami he
could do virtually nothing; save TO, casa her
suffering At Miss Eagans home in Erie street
her father told the story as related above. He
said that thousand legged worms were very
common In the neig hborhooh and lie always
thought they were harmless. other persons
who live in the house say they, too. have been
troubled with the inse is. Hamilton Park Is u
block back OF lIr EaRqn,s house, and the in
benches at night. and often get on the clothes
and faces and hands OF persons who sit there.