The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-03

| Several years ago q Chinese laundry
man was poking his fingers through
the wires of little cage that impris-
oned ella monster in saloon at
| Tempe, Arizona. The Celestial thought
the reptile asleep, but when he had
forced his finger too far into the cage
the sluggish monster bit him quicker
than wink. The Chinaman wrenched
his finger loose, making a severe wound
clear to the bone. He refused whiskey
or help of a physician, and took pow"
erful dose Of opium in order to relieve
the pain. or course, everybody In
| Tempe expected the heather to die, and
when he lived until the next day it was
| the biggest kind of a surprise. The
| Chinaman's friends gave him opium
hourly for several days. The poor fell
| low suffered, in spite of the powerful
drug, unspeakable agony, but he recov-
cred. He was practically physical
wreck for nearly a year after the ella
monster poison went into his system,
and was only able to sit or lie about his
washhouse. He said his backbone was
paralyzed.
The period of suffering after bite by
ella monster, and before death comes
to the victims relief, is from twenty
minutes to two hours. The surgeon at
Fort Bowie says he knows of the case
of big, strapping Irish private in the
army service who was bitten by ella
monster while out hunting one day,
and died in five minutes. teamster
who hauled merchandise to Tombstone
in 1898 was picking up mesquite boughs
for a campfire, and unconsciouSly
picked up a ella monster with the
wood. He was bitten in the upper arm
and died before his companions could
saw the reptiles head off and cut the
| jaws and teeth from the wound
Where the attacked person survives an
| hour or two after the bite the agony Is
described as awful to witness, The
venom of the rattlesnake is somewhat
numbing in its effect and after the first
| half hour is not so very painful, but the
lpoison of the ella monster goes through
the human system with lightning ra-
pidity, and causes unspeakable pain
and excruciating agony from head to
| foot The victim seems to be para
lyzed, land yet every muscle, bone,
| sinew and particle of gray matter is
keenly alive to intense pain. The suf-
ferer's head seems as if it would split
open Very few persons bitten by a
| ella monster can speak after the first
| fifteen minutes, but Inconsistencies
seldom comes until few minutes be-
fore death. Physicians say that the
poison sets up a tremendous action of
the heart, and the victim really dies Of
heart failure. The person who has
been drinking to excess few days or a
few hours before he is injured by a ella
monster Is almost sure of death in half
an hour after the bite. Many physi-
clans in the territory say that alcoholic
stimulants are worse than useless for a
person hurt by the reptile, but Walter
Fl. Vail says he owes his recovery to q
prompt use Of whiskey and the applica-
ton of ammonia.
/ Dir. e. G. Harper, who has been
among the Hualipi Indians in Mexico
for several years in the interest of sci
ence, says the savages there certainly
| have decoction that Is a. cure, IL adj
| ifinistered Immediately, for the bite OF
the ella monster found in that region.
II have tried to learn from the Mexi-
can Hulipis this anti-venom decoc-
tion." said DR.. Harper recently, "but it
was useless. President Diaz says
! however, that it can be had, and he viii
interest himself to get it for the benefit
of the people of the United States
where death from ella monster bite
happens once in a while.
1.-THE most wonderful feat ever saw
performed anywhere" continued DR.
Harper, was down on the edge of the
desert wastes in southern Sonora seve.
raj years ago. 1t was test of thu
power Of the anti-venom preparation
of the Hulipis. The chief medicine
man claimed that he was a wizard, too
and that the great spirit Moz-no-ha
who dwelt on the peak of Orizaba
came down, and helped him defy dealt
from the most deadly poisons known
among the Indians. At the time of TIL
test witnessed, the medicine maj
summoned a dozen of his young assist