The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-21
ESSENCE OF CINNAMON"
Containing Alcohol Caused the Poisoning
Ia the on firld-Sprak Easy Liquid nnd
Nav lie.

la the on fIrld-Sprak Easy Liquid and
Its Aw fni WorlS-Threc Dead land Other,
May Die.
Special Dispatch to tho IntollIsCnccr.
SISTERSVlLLE, W. Va, Dec. 90
Ono OF the most terrible calami;cs that
has been known In this section OF the
country occurred ut Il late hour Sat
urday evening ut Benwood, the new
oil field In Monroe county. Ohio, and as
n result OF drinking q decoction labeled
nS essence OF cinnamon three men
are dead, serCrHI are seriously III and
two or. three are cruzy. The arst news
Of the AFFAIR reached this city late Sat
urday night. and on account OF the
latCn"ss of the hour, Il was impossible
tO get Iull details OF what had happen
cd, Later details have since been re-
ccivcd
In tho oil fields IN this section there
have always been y large number OF
spcak-casCs. and these Institutions
have always aOurlshCd vigorously and
made money. In the BcnwoOd field
there have been n number Of travelling
spcak-cHsies. but none have located
there permanently. II the oil men can
not get whisky they will drink what
ever they can Get hold OF. just 50 II
contains alcohol According 20 the re-
port tclcphoncd the lntcllGGnccr rep
rescntntivc here this afternoon. It
scctns that one Ot thc store kccpcrs q;
Bcrwood got onto the fact that
wholesale drug arm was putting up q
preparation called essence Of CHINA
man" which contained a large per-
Centnge OF alcohol. This paTticuln:
merchant laid In lnrEc supply O. this
siuG and Ihcn Informed the people
about that he had good thing. 1t
seems from what can be learned that
the supply " deadly stun was only re-
CciVcd yesterday and that quite 10;
OF Il was disposed OF during the day.
but up unHl evening no Gvi! effects
were noticed.
Arc Taken III.
In the evening several or the people
who had bought supply OF the "es-
scnce" were taken III very suddenly
md after n terrible Siege OF suffering
died. There were three people passed
away uuI IN eHch case ihc symptoms
of poisoning we're the same and az all
or them had par:aken " the s;ut, the
blame was laid on Il. and It seems aC-
cCrdlnE 10 what can be learned that
only those who had psriuken OF 4; were
affected
The first man TO be taken III was
Nj. ". II. Price, the gentleman on
whose farm :hc Fisher oil Company
drilled in the first well OF any consc-
qucnCc IL that field. and in tact the
we'll which opened up the field. Mr..
Price had taken some OF thc essence
about the time !or eating the evening
4 "a xt.h hn ~.
was taken violently III and had 10
leave ;hc table. He went out and COM
mcnced 10 purge and then awful pains
seized him In the abdomen. II was evi-
dent tha, he was suffering from
poison. but what II was no one knew
at the time. Seeing that he wa. In n
very precarious condition physician
was sent foT al once. but as the nearest
one was at New Castle and Il being
some time before he could get there.
Price had died from the effects OF the
terrible stuff.
The suTerlrCs OF the man were ter
rlble tC behold and he wrlthcd and
seemed 10 be IN awful agony, before
death relieved HIS suncrings. Mr.. Price
Is one Of the best known men In Mon
roc county, Ohio. and was rapidly be-
coming one OF the wealthicst, ns there
arc now about half dozen good pro-
ducing oil wells on his farm, and more
are being drilled. HIS royalty per
month was something Ike two or three
thousand Iolla:s. He was married
man and leaves widow.
Second Victim.
While Price was suffering the ;or-
mcn;s OF the Internal regions. on ac-
count OF the stun he had taken. n man
named Charles Scibcrt. n butcher. OF
Sardis, Ohio. was takea III and before
he could be attended to and a physI-
clan summoned. he had died. His
sufleTinEs were pretty much the same
as those OF PTico and II was only a
short time after he was taken I'll until
his death occurred The other man who
had died last evening was Thomas
ClcEG. worker on the oil wells In that
section. The symptoms in all OF Tic
cases were the same
At ona time last evening there were
fifteen people reported ilI and OF this
EumbGc two were reported seriously III.
but up 10 late hour this evening no
more deaths had been reported and (;
IL now believed that no more will oc-
Cu-, Gs physicians have arrived Mt
Bcnwood from Snriis and also from
this cl;y, and everything possible !s be-
lug Gouc FOR the sufferers. Among those
who were suffering the most were Col.
ClcEG. Henry Roth and 4 mon whose
name could rot be learned. One OF the
men taken Ill last niuht was Che cook
IN boarding house and a: the last nc
count received he was still delIrious
and there were very il;tle hopes OF his
recovery.
\ man who works IN the Bcnwool
field came in from there late this az
tcrnOon and In conversation With the
TntclliGcncer man stated that he never
saw such excitement I'm his life ns
thc-c was Mt BcnwoOd last evening
He stated that II large aUmbc" OF the
people had been drinking OF the cs-
sencc and that all o. them were wild
when they heard OF the effect II had
had upon the other people and the re-
suit OF their Illness.
STATE SUPREME COURT