Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-22
WILL SUE THE CITY.
Mr., Gledhill Objects to Sturgeon Be-
ing Destroyed, Because
NOEXAMINATON OFT WAS MADE.
Slight Traces of Organic Poisoning We're
Found ly Hugo Blanck.
TEE FISH SOLD LAST FRIDAY WAS RED

Tho latest development in the smoked
sturgeon poisoning cases is that Mr.. Gledhill
proposes to sue the city for the loss of kiln
of the fish which was burned yesterday. He
says it was burned before any examination OF
it was made, and the authorities don't know
whether it was good or bad.
Il informed Chief Brown that he was at
liberty TO test the meat before it was offered
for sale" said Mr.. Gledhill 'But they
didn't do it. They took it all out and
dumped it into the garbage furnace and
destroyed it. j have been made to shoulder
;the blame in this, and 1 don't think it is
right. Mr.. Kenany, of Wylie avenue, in
forms me that lie sold sturgeon brought
from SanduSky and some of his customers
were sick 1t would he manly for all the
dealers to come and say where they pur-
chased their fish and exonerate me from
the blame when l DO not deserve it,"
Mr.. Gledhill SAYS his fish is nice and fresh
and it must be thh lake sturgeon which is
doing the damage He says none of his meat
was dccomposcd and 1t was as fresh rs any
he has ever had. He proposes to find out
whose fish it was, and says that SO far none
OF his meat has boen analyzed
Traces OF Organic Poison.
Hugo Blanck, tie chemist, is analyzing O
piece of the smoked sturgeon whicn was pur-
chased from Mr.. Gledhill's stand in the mar
ket. So far he has not finished it, but has
found slight traces of organic poisoning. He
says that organic poisons are very hard to
trace, but he hopes TO have finished by to-
morrow. Organic poison would come from
the decomposition. Hunt & Clapp are test
ing some OF the fish, but probably not that
prepared by Mr.. Gledhill. No creosote has
been found, EXCEPT some slight traces COM
ing from the wood used The samples were
slightly decomposed before being smoked
There were no rev cases of poisoning re-
ported yesterday probably because people
have decided not to eat any sturgeon for n
while. Those who have been sick are getting
along very well, and no more deaths are an
ticipated. DIR. Robinson, of Sharpsburg, said |
Yesterday, in regard to the man who died |
there from the poison: ''IIe seemed to die |
from exhaustion and his symptoms were |
like sporatic cholera or cholera morbus. He |
Nomited and wps attacked with severe |
cramps and diarTAoea. / was present at the |
post mortem examination. The report is |
not yet ready" None of the Sharpsburg |
doctors had any new cases TO report, and all |
report their patients as doing well.
The Fish Little Off Color.
The family of JDhn OFT, at Sharpsburg. is |
composed of eight people, and one pound of |
smoked sturgeon made them all sick Mr.. |
OFT said yesterday that the fish had a red.
dish hue instead d being white, as it should |
be-
my idea is that it was partly decom-
posed, said Mr.. CIT, land they put it in salt
water and added little poison of some kind
70 make it appear all right. We didn't eat
all of il, and there was only pound, so you
can see that it was not very good. Weall |
got sick, and some of us have not got over it |
Yet. We all hadcramps, headaches and di- |
arrhoea"
y number of the patients seen responded
TO the intervieweTs questions in almost ex-
actlY the same manner
Park Cridge, a l6year-old boy of Sharps-
burg, sampled some of the fish in a nearby |
nda In 1
the cramps and other symptoms of the pois-
Oning. When asked what it was like he
said: 81 had the grip once and it is hard to
tell which is the worst. / don't want either
again"
The majority of them who suffered from
the poisoning doIit care to talk about 1t and
say that now that thev have escaped they 1
are going TO keep As far away from smoked
sturgeon as is possible.