Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-14
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

horse 1t Is a four-year-old chestnut,
IS. 1 hands high, and lives in spite of the
fact that its neck is broken The horse
is we'll bred and has all the points of
fast trotter, which is undoubtedly would
have been but for its accident Its
owners, Henry Amling, William Cooke,
and Norman L. Littell, are students at
the veterinary college, and bought the
horse with view to making it the sub
ject of study. Jimsy, as the horse is
known, has an abnormal appetite, and,
although his neck is broken, he manages
to walk about and MUNICH his food and
water. Two years ago, when Jimsy was
promising young colt, his owner, a
Westminster farmer, was training him.
The colt became FESTIVE, and, breaking
away, lowered his head and dashed head
foremost against a flat wall The force
of the blow caused what the surgeons
described as a fracture on the right side
of the fourth articulation of the cervical
vertebr9. The head and neck were
thrown to the right side of the shoulder,
but, as there was nothing to support the
head, it fell to the other side, where it
now hangs, almost between the horses
fore legs. The right dorsal bone and
several smaller ones were damned
together and, on account OF the youth
of the horse, the bones were knitted
together. Some time later ossiiication
set in, and now the right shoulder and
its muscle are a solid mass of bone. G..
f. Moadinger, Professor of Veterinary
Surgery at the college, examined the
horse and pronounced the case to be
without a parallel in the history of
veterinary surgery The ligaments, he
said, were fractured, and the spinous
process was also broken. II the fracture
had extended into the bone Il quarter of
an inch the spinal cord would have been
injured and Jimsy would have been a fit
subject for the dissectng room.
w. S. PARKER of Boise, Idaho,
has a man in his employ in the Willow
Creek mining district who is strangely
afflicted The name of the man is
Timothy O'Sullivan, and he is well
known throughout that portion of the
State The story Of O'Sullivan, which
is fully vouched for by Mr.. Parker, is rs
follows: son August Is, 1891, while
at work in the mines, he was bitten on
one arm by huge rattlesnake. The
injury was dangerous one, but before
OSullivan had applied any remedy he
killed the reptile, after which he filled
up with whiskey and other fluids calcu-
lated to cOuuteract the effects Of poison.
After violent illness O'Sulivan recovered,
but since that time not a month has
Of no faar
full sickness that followed the bite of the
deadly snake. During these periods
O'Sullivan is not only unable to work,
but he suffers the most intense agony
imaginable, his body becoming dark and
swollen and his frame being racked with
fever. He asserts that III August last,
the anniversary of his encounter with
the RATHER, he experienced the aeUtest
pains that it had ever been his lot tC
suffer, and he prayed for death to re.
lieve him His skin turned black, and
faint but sickening odor cxhaled.
Mr. Parker says that the poor fellow is
rapidly breaking down under the weight
of his strange affection and may soor
die. His brain is already affected to
some extent, and he IS not nearly SC
strong as he was six months ago.
II HAVE interested myself somewhat
in looking up unusual causes of death, >
says DIR. Eden of Washington, "anC
have met several well authenticated case,
where fright was the cause. The English
Surgeon General, Francis, tells of
drummer in India, across whose legs ;
harmless lizard crawled while he was hal
asleep. He was sure that cobra haC
bitten him, and it was too much for hi
nerves and he died Frederick l. o
Prussia was killed by fear His wife wa
insane, and one day she escaped from he
keepers, and, dabblng her clothes ii
blood, rushed upon her husband Will
he was doing in his chair. King Fred
erick imagined her to be the white lady
whose ghost was believed to appea
Whenever the death of member of TIN
royal family was to occur, and he wa
thrown into a fever and died in 81,
weeks. But perhaps the most remark
able death from fear was that OF tn
Dutch painter, Pentman, who lived il
the seventeenth century. One day II
went into room full of anatomical sub
iccts to sketch some deaths heads ant
skeletons for a picture he intended t
paint. The weather was very suItry. ant
while skctching he fell asleep. He wa
aroused by bones dancing around hin
and the skeletons suspended from tn
ceiling clashing together. In q fit o
terror he threw himself from q window
and, though he sustained no seriou
injury, aud was informed that slgh
earthquake had caused the commotio
among hi. ghostIy surroundings he die
in a few days in % nervous tremor.
could cite many other cases where th
shock to the nervous system which "
know as fright has produced death. ?
4 CuRlov- tale comes from the We
of how Kansas farmer dreamed out
Colorado gold mine The farmer 81
A. e. Elicit. whose brother went We
after the war. Elicit heard nothing flol
the ab,cnt one. bui one night about tW
yelr. ngo he had a very vivid dream tiu
ho and hI. brother were together amau
some m0unnlns. which hc hHd uet'
seen lnd discovered "a wonderfully rlf
gold m.ue "a. thought nnlhu4 Of O.
Arctm hut th. urNt uIshf lfsNa Is
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