The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-07
TOADSTOOLS FATAL.
Three Dead Who Ate Them
in Mistake for Musn-
rooms.
spsoiat to he Jersey casy Ns,us.

Special to The Jersey City Netcs.
NEWARK, Sept. Z. 1898. The csse OF
poisoning from eating toadsrools 10 mis-
stake for mushrooms. as reported IN THE
JERSEY CRY NEWS. last night, resulted
much more seriously than was anticl-
patsd on Tuesday night, when the mat
ter was made public by DR.. Glatzmeyer.
The physician then had hopes of the
eomplete recovery of all the invalids, but,
during the early hours Of yesterday
morning, relapses ensued. and Mrs. Vo-
jacek died at nine O'Clock. Two of the
children had bean removed to the City
Hospital. aud Willie, aged ten, died there
az eleven o'clock. Marie. aged twelve, Is
Still critically i'll at the hospital, and The
father. VeazeI Vojacek. is unconscious
AZ his home, Ne. 427 Fifteenth avenue.
The three year old baby lies in a stupor
at the Vojacek home, and the neighbors
are takiug care of 1t under DIR. Frey's
instructions. Besides the Vojacek fami-
~, John Katlin, q boarder. and Aloysius
Novack, d friend, ate q small quantity OF
the stew, aud Novack died last night.
Venzel Vojacsk is q Bohemian capen-
ten who has beet out OF work for some
weeks. He Is thirty-eight years old. and
his wife was thirIy.two. She aid a little
washing 10 sup ,ort the family. while the
husband went out looking for work every
day. There was nothing to eat in the
house on Monday morning. so the father
Of 4 he faihilysses out to find food. He
walked through the fields In the Deigh-
bofhood Of l~rvfngtoa and gathered a
large quantity OF mushrooms. which he
brought home in triumph. There il no
doubt hat he got many edible mush-
rooms. but with them he must have
gathered q quantity OF the poisonous
fungi. which can oniv be detected fion
Them by experts.
Yojacek was extremely fond of mush-
rooa.s and had eaten them often. His
wife hailed his mud with delight, and
cooked them while he went out n told
sNovack aud Kstlffi of his luck. Early in
the evening they all sat down to q meal
OF mushroom stew aud rye bread. which
hnd been bought with a little money
Vojacek had earued after his fatal find,
Neither Katlin nor Novack liked tue
taste OF the dish, but all the Vojaceks
ate heartily. When they were prostratei
In the night their condition was at
tributed to oyereating. The wife was too
Ill 70 get up IN the morning. but Voiacek
arc 80 rs usual, and after eating something
went out. He drank n glass Ut whiskey
iu a SALOON III the neighborhood aud COM
plaiued OF fesliag Ill, but subssq lently
set about some WORK which he had got to
do. At ten O'Clock ne was so Ill tuat he
had 70 give mp aitd return home. He
found the members Of his family worse
tina when ba lefs them, but he was too
Ill to do anything FOR the III, The condi-
ton OF the FAMILY was discovered at noon
on Tuesday. Ii then Dir. Frey aud DR..
Glatzfneyer were called iu. They re-
mafued With the family until evening,
and left the fnvaiiis apparently in a fair
way 10 recovery In Tho hands of neigh
bors. DR.. Frey was again tailed
in early yesterday morning aud found
all the palients much worse. He seut
Two OF the cbiltren TO the hospital. and
gave his chief attention to Mrs. Vol icek.
who was evidently siuking. In hsr casa,
as IN that of the other, the action of the
heart was greatly enfseblsd. Her death
due TO psralysi. of That organ.
Hoyaek, Vsjaeeg's friend, who ate
spariuglY of Che toad tool stew. began Co
sink suddenly early last evening and died
az o'clock, Just as II n ambulance ar
rived to take MIN To the hospital.
yKAtlin, the boarder. was SCARCELY Ill at
ali. and was at wore yesterday.