The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-10-12

grasped by the right hand of one and
the left of the other, the hand near
est the ak being permitted to slip on
the handle at the right moment, just
as in ordinary chopping.
The children and grandchildren of
Chang and Eng are scattered pretty
well over the country. The brothers
married two Misses Yates, and Nancy
Bunker, the eldest child, had some
educational advantages. She travel
ed in Europe, with her father and
| uncle and acted as their secretary.
Mr.. Dufour claims that the two
brothers did not unite with the Bap-
| fist church, but that the widows and
| children did. Perhaps, this is correct,
for | am gradually losing faith in the
man who said the brothers were i'm
mersed while Chang had Siamese
! jag on.
DR.. jacob states that ''the connec-
| tion of the Siamese twins took place
| in their epigastric regions between
the navel, which was common to both.
and the ensiform processes, which
were bent out in a forward direction
and met very closely, held together
| by ligamentpus apparatus. The
coupling itself was eight inches in
| circumference and two and One-half
| inches in diameter. 1t contained a
| connection between the two livers and
was composed partially of liver
tissue
The band was very curious from an
anatomical standpoint, as the skin at
the meadian line was mutually Sensl-
tive, and inside there was d cOmbina-
ton of the periOneum, so that after
death hand introduced into the alb
domen of Chang entered two pouches
reaching into Eng, and the reverse
produced almost similar result as to
Chang.
Separation during life was there.
fore impossible.
One evening in the winter of 1879
Chang went to bed feeling indiposed,
and Eng, who was of d sOciable turn Of
mind, joined him. After conversing
: for some time about their prospects
and finally getting somewhat acrimo
NOUS regarding their management
, they at last compromised, agreeing
that Chang should go under one man
agement and Eng under another.
OThen they dropped off to sleep. Ii
, the night wild cry from Eng pierced
the darkness, and when the famil.
came Eng was found almost deliriou
with the discovery that he was LINKED
to the dead body of his brother. HI
lived for an hour only, the fright ant
horror of the situation precipitatins
v his DEATH
No cases are recorded of successful
= |
though it has been several times at
, tempted.
p Considerable trouble was made b.
4 the two sons, who came home from
the west and heard on their arrivd
= that the doctors had secured til
: bodies and gone away to get then
v photographers; also to see what mad
the "wheels go round" They graft
fed their morbid curiosity and the
a T.
= The brothers were diSpleaSed abou
= it, and so expressed themselves. Som
U people are, perhaps, morbidly sensitiv
n about having their parents dissecte'
F. that way.
q A friend of mine named Quill Pat
- tersOn, says that his old doctor ha
Quilts stomach in alcohol an
y though Quill has offered him over an
Il over again four times what the orga
q is worth from mercantile stand
point, hoping to obtain it and bury
o. with the old gentleman, the docto
:, claims that Quill can't positfyel
q identify it, and so just because MI
Patterson, before his fathers deatf
2. did not fix in his memory the feature
a of the old gentleman's stomach
r that he could recognize it anywher
n he is now denied it by man who ha
no real claim on it.
" The SiameSe twins were CAREFUL
e examined by Drs. Pancoast and As
- new, of Philadelphia, after whic
=. they were photographed and no one
look at them could have believed tia
n they had been so recently an
n thoroughly explored.
n The sons repleYined their father
# but not in time to prevent the e.
I ploratiOn.
- Two modest marble monument
7 mark the graves of these two Strang
a men.
ar 1t was first suggested that one lars
10 stone should be erected, but this W;
given up. The motto at the top W;
n to have been: