New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-12
TOADSTOOLS KILL EIGHT.
THE POISONS A WFUL WORh.
rpIGIITFUL MORTALITY REPORTED FROM
THE CITY AND SUBURBS.

CARELESS VICTIMS MEET SWIFT AND AGONIz
ING pEATH-ALL THOUGHT THEY WERE EAT
ING MUSHROOMS ONE EXPIRES BE ORE
HELP REACHES HIM-ANoTHER RE
FUSES MEDICAL AID AND SOON
>UCcrMBs-MANY OTHER
SERIOUS CASES.
An appalling number Of deaths caused by the
..,,oncns toad,tool has been reported from II"
, and thc nearby suburbs during the last two
- IN every ,~,s,. the fatalities have been
ssd by the dreadful mistake of eating toad
,,l. fo, mushrooms III most Of the cases the We
.ws have been absolutely careless though i'll
one instances regular dealers in tie NcgetlP'
Ia,n themselves been deceived. !, is noticeable
,h., Italians have been the greatest sufferers.
,honch tho} are by means unique
on sunday one Ita'an died in Harlem. The
10. of fire. rncrd follows. Ii includes three more
dea-l, i'm the city; two in Mount Vernon one III
yonker. aud two in Now-Jcrscy towns with i
s,,,oc addition of serious cases, some OF which Will
prove fatal
Three persons died yesterday within stone'
.,,ov of South Fifth-avc. and Blecckcr->t, and
three other persons were sick from the effects of
Aha ,o;eon Among tho victims John Facorc-.
~ unmarried Fremclman. fifty-0ne years old, VINO
Hvad alone at No. lG2 Bleccller-st. lie hc4uent-
r. went 10 pasturaSe places on Long isnnd an"
Gathered mushrooms, which he peddled III th'
atty. and he therefore should heve known thc
~nn,ra mushrooms Early yesterday morning
y. Wa. found in his room, i'll with symptoms OF
no,soninC and he died before a physician conla
ha called 10 attend him. The 'cdus" u ms dea'"
will have TO be determined by an autopsy, o"' II
Uas known that he was fond OF mushrooms dir
,raouentlv ate those which he failed 10 SELL ana
Il was believed yesterday that he hao o'~" e"'"s
some toadstoels Oy mistake
Another vender Of mushrooms, an Italian. WHO'S"
u.m. was not known, took some toadstools into
r.ooiret's neiehborhood on Friday, and sold then
q. +bs grocery of Geralomo Domarco, eno'h@i
,..Tan At No SO South Fifthave. Doma'co
.hougb. they We're mushrooms of extra nne quar-
itv He sold part of them in the evening 10 MI
Ro.ina Conzoinero, an Italian woman OF NO
South Firth-sve who cooked them ana helped he'
husband Peter and her sister eat them ne sisn'
ate sparingly and not seriously Ill., out Noh
,o;ne,o and hi, wife became 80 SICK before hioIh
mo that DR. w. F.. Forest, Of No lol "aNerhA
Place was called to attend them II" "'o"s"'
they had been poisoned. and he soon ieafht" ''''
they had hecm eating what they thoush' w'f
mrsb,ooms. To confirm his suspicion that they III
bAaO
~ the expectation of being able to get a sample
IL tonrd tho grocer and his brother Mariana
,u with the same symptoms of pelsonih-
IA eave Tho supposed mushrooms that reualh''"
urso,d the grocer had cooked them, ana Ms
brother and his partner John Cuneo had helped
cat them CrneO, also, was found III AZ HIS Io'"'
No ss West Third-st Domarco was out Oh oah-
cer Yesterday. and his partner and brother Were
beloved to be recovering.
The Conzoineros, however, suffered rom the
poson all day Sunday, and their condition dld ho'
improve although DIR. Forest did everything III nj
nover 70 mitigate. their suferines. Inc wohah
died early Yesterday morning, and her huspaI
d;sd befor, a H. An investigation left no douot
tbst the ConzoinerOs had died from the euec'e VI
poison in tOadStools ,,,. . .b fruit
insnectors into the Gstrict with orders 10 seiz
any toadstsols that were offered ior saie Ire Hrnu
fhere was danger in eating supposed mushrooulN
miles tha mushrooms had been gathered ny en-
Prts .,.o, ,.o,s old and
Nicholas NardachiOn f0rty-eiQht ol N~oull' ~
Nonnt Vernon, with several other ltallais, W,h
ont in the fields near that village on ainrusy
to gather mushrooms for their SUNDAY rij uinn1ij
They were not particular what they sa'.Iei"' sa
an lono as II bore resemblance TO A Mushroom
and they did not hesitate T. take toadstoois 'ron @
the stumps Of dead trees; They cooked por-
tiso of what they had gathered for their cvenln!
msal saturday Tie result was that two OF them,
Mary Cofircella and Nicholas Nardachlone' died
Mira MARY Connor AMI four children, Lying al
No. Pond-st, Yonkers, were poisoned >unnS
bv eating toadstools Mrs. Connor died yester-
dsy morning from the effects OF the poison WI Oh
Sunday Mrs. Connor's four children went to Val
sntine's Hill TO gather mushrooms. ihel ,",ht T
home with basketfu of what tn"y IN .noIs", ,hn,
were mushrooms and their mother cooked th''"
s.v d;nrer After eating them they soon becant
III. and DIR. H. NJ Morrell was called IN ,-l lie
Confer WAS too far gone 10 ne saNeu' inr i"''' ~
children. after heroic treatment We're brought Out
Of danger A., ao,I ~ ,ugust
rsi,g ~ Relmont y. j. yesterday. and II was
proved beyond doubt that he had died from eat
ing toadstoos. A week ago on Sunoay rev nh, al"
his wife gathered quantity OF what they though.
wsre mushrooms Fcltz ate d large quantity, bnt
his wife was not hungry, and partook spafihi3iN ii
Of thc deadly vegetable. Their son did not Ike
then and refused to eat at all. Feltz and hls
wife were taken extremely III the same hiSMl, M
but the next day were slightly better a'o on
Tuesday the woman had recovered bu, h''T ~. uu'
hsnd ~,n;dlv crew worse and, against his wife
wishes refused 10 have d doctor called. On Wee
peay he died in sTcas rS agon % bo9V WIS swollen
and physician decided al once that NJ hau ul." @
nom toadstool poison he inves'isa'ioh S'"-
terday left no doubt on the matter. =, - IA
I"nes n Naccn. three and half years oid;
living with her parents in Ridgeheld; ~ D., @ uleI
on Saturday last OF poisoning OF W n%eai % In
dsughtcr are seriously III Of the complaint. -, Dr.
Ayres saw. however, that they will recover il2
two dsaghteIS Went wen, t. .boy 'p Supposed % were mush
rooms That evening the mother ana thc i"p no
girls ate the fungi stew"d They We're sood Mti
H. but the physician was not slmmoleu ,o, um',
Friday The father and son were absent WIZ"
the fatal meal was eaten.
y B. Var Crlcn. living on the S kocS '',I, Ioai,
northwest of Plainield narrowly "scau ,i,b uIa' -
from having riicn of mushrooms miNcl Win L., a
'oadstoo Friday. ON SATURDAY nOrnns @ s,,n,. M.
awoke violently i'll Dr. D. C. adams was vas. sum, hm,
moned, and worked over Van Ordcn nll DAY, pn'
NOT until nicir VIZ he pronounced out Of danser-
Two cats which had eaten OF the f''h,aliIhs pI pCt
tion the diS, lied. II was found 1nt' OLE Ole