The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
HIS CASE SERIOUS
Much sAlarm Felt for Mr.. T. j.
Kellam.
He was Unconscious All Day
Sunday,
BUT IMPROVED TODAY.
He is Suffering From a Raging
Fever.
BUT IMPROVED TODAY.
DR.. GuibOr is Called in Consul
tatiOn.

The condition of Mr.. T. J. Kellam is
very serious.
A change for the worse in Mr.. Kellam' 3
condition developed late Saturday after :
noon. He became delirious and remained
SO during the greater portion of the night
He then relapsed into Inconsistencies
and all day Sunday efforts made to arouse
him were unsuccessful.
Mrs. Kellam became very much alarm
ed and the report was circulated that
Mr.. Kellam was dying. DR.. c. H.
Guibor was summoned to consult with
the attending physician, Dr. Hog eboom,
and he also made an examin alton to de-
termine whether the lungs of the in
jured man were affected. He found that
they we're not,
Last night the condition of the patient
had not improved and he9was in a raging
fever The stupor had not left him.
though the physician succeeded in adj
ministering nourishment in the form of
beef tea.
that Mr.. Kellam was worse and had
passed very bad night
just before noon today the doc
tor succeeded in rou:ing his
patient. He was very weak, but the
doctor Gays that his condition is much
less serious that at noon yesterday.
His fever has not abated, but
Is perfectly conscious. He took
nourishment and recognized Colonel w.
H. Rossingtou and other friends who
called to see him.
The re port was circulated on the street
today that Mr. Kellam has not been able
to take nourishment since he was I'M ur-
ed and that some measures would be
IT, IL 1.
no more medicine would be administered
until there was some change in the con-
dition of the patient.
Mr.. Charles K. Holiday, Mr.. Kel-
lam's brother-in-law, who has been at
the bed side of the sick man ever since
Saturday evening, says that there was
no foundation for the report, and that
Mr. ke!lam has taken nourishment
regularly.
Mr.. Holiday said to a JOURNAL re-
porter who saw him at MIR. Kellam's
home at noon: 1--WE are very hopeful
Mr.. Kellam is now resting easy and the
doctor says that his condition has visibly
improved in the past twenty-four
hours. We were all considerably
alarmed yesterday. Mrs. Kellam is cas-
lily frightened and when tho change came
she was very much alarmed.
"The doctor has just left and he says that
if the fever can be controlled that there
will be no dou bt a bout Mr.. KelIam getting
through all right The high fever was
the cause of the serious condition of Mr.
Kellan since Saturday evening, when he
became fighty. Succeeding that came
the stupor, but when he was aroused to-
day, it was like a man awakening from a
refreshing sleep"
It will soon be known what turn the
fever will take and until then the ques
tion of Mr.. Kellam's recovery cannot be
determined, though the physicians are
very hopeful that change for the better
will soon be noticed in the condition of
the patient.
Among those most anxious about
Mr.. Kellam's condition is ". A.
L. Thompson who was with him in the
wreck in which both men were injured
Mr. Thompson is able to be around and
looks none the worse from the results of
the accident.