The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-12
A TOADST00L EPIDEMIC.

several Wore Deaths Result from Nistak-
Ing Poisonou. } ungi for ~ usbrooms.
NEW YORK. Sept. tl2.-An1tAer csse of
poisoning BY toadstools came to light yes
terday when the death OF Peter Como
inero and his wife, Rosina Conzoinero, was
announced. Three others are i'll from eat
ing of the same lot of toadstools.
On Friday night Mrs. Conzoinero bought
some Of the toadstools and took them
home. She and her husband made a
meal OF them that night.
On the following DAY they were taken
violently i'll, and doctor was called. He
saw that the couple had been pois-
oned and believed that they had eaten
toadstoods. He was with them al
most constantly until the woman died.
The Conzoineros lived I'm close quarters,
and this morning the icebox containing
the discolored body of Mrs. Conzoinero
was lying beside the bed on which Como
inero lay dying.
Geralono Domareo, his brother Martiano
and John Kinio partook of the mushrooms
on Saturday. The three of them were
taken i'll the next day. Their sickness was
made known to the doctor when he went
to get sample of the fungi that the Con-
zoineros had eaten.
Peter Conzoinero died soon after his
wife.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, Sep. 11.-Mary
Cofiircella, aged 63 years, and Nicholai
Nardicihione, aged AS, Of South Mount
Vernon, with several other Italians, went
out Into the fields neal that village to
gather mushrooms for Sundays dinner.
They were not particular what they gath
cred 80 long a. 1t bore resemblance to a
mushroom, and they did not hesitate to
take 'toadstools off the stumps of dead
trees. They cooked portion of what they
had gathered for their evening meal Satur
day. The result was that two of them,
Mary CofiiPcella apd Nicholai Nardichione,
died yesterday morning, and four Others
cannot live the day out.
YoNKERs, N. Y, Sep 11.-Mrs. Mary
Connor, AZ years old, died this morning
from eating toadstools.
Yesterday morning her children we mt
out to Valentine Hill to gather mush-
rooms. They gathered what they though.
were the fungi, and took them home.
Mrs. Cennor prepared them for dinner.
Shortly after the family had partaken Of
the supposed mushrooms Mrs. Connor and
the children became violently ILL
DR.. X. NJ. Morrell was called in and
found that the family had been poisoned
by eating toadstools. He found Mrs. Con-
nor in dangerous condition, and admin
istered antidotes fer the poison, but she
was too far gone to be saved, and died
this morning.
The others are not out Of danger.
New YoRK Sep. 11.-Jean Faconet,
Fenchman. 81 years old. died suddenly
at o'clock, 1t u supposed, from toad
stool poisoning. He was engaged in the
business Of gathering mushrooms and
selling them to vegetable dealers in the
city. 1t Is supposed he ate toad
stools by mistake. He was taken
violently Ill at 10 o'clock, and
died two hours later, before doctor was
called. The coroner has been notified,
but no autopsy has been made. Faconet
gathered mushrooms on Long Island. He
was arrested over there some time ago for
trespass and sent to Jail for thirty days.
He was bachelor and lived alone.
LoSa ISLAND CRY, Sep. 11.-Michael
Granievc, custom tailor of this city, and
his wife, Annie, are dangerously iii at
their residence from the effects Of eating,
on Wednesday, . quantity Of what were
supposed to be mushrooms, but which
proved to be toadstools