The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-23
MADE SICK BY ICE CREAM.
SEVERAL FAMILIES BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN POISONED.

Mr.. James VI. Dixon, Mr.. w. j. Lind
/ say and Solicitor General Osborne
/ and Their Families Taken sick Mt
| Tybee After Eating Cream.
| brought to the City ON a Special
| Train-Physicians Unable to Say
Why the Cream should Have Pol
soned Them-AII of the Party Re-
covered.
| A special train from Tybee last night at
7:45 o'clock, brought to the city Mr.. James
NJ. Dixon, Hon. w. w. Osborne, Mr.. w.
]. Lindsay and Alderman T. ]. Davis, ac-
companied by their families, all suffering
from what they believed to be poisoning
from ice cream. Tie entire party was
sick, and was met at the train by physi-
clans. who had been summoned by teIe-
phone
Mr.. Dixon went to Tybee Saturday night,
| accompanied by Mrs. Dixon and their
| three children. They We're to spend Sun
day at their cottage on the island. Mr.
Dixon invited Mr.. Osborne and Mr.. Lind
say, with their families, and Alderman
Davis to go down ~yesterday and spend
the day.
gallon bucket of Ice cream for desert
at dinner, was ordered by Mr.. Dixon to be
sent down on the morning train. II was a
cross flavor, of strawberry and vanilla, the
! berries being left in the cream in the US
ual way.
After a light lunch of cold meats, bread,
coffee, the children began romping over the
beach. Mr.. Dixons attention was soon
called to the fact that little Merritt, his
6-year-old son, was vomiting and had
| complained of severe pains. The little fell
low was examined, and after a while, it
was determined that something he had
eaten had affected him. Before he had got
ten over his sickness, however, little Ell
len was taken sick, and she too began
vomiting Violently This gave the party
some alarm. Soon Mr. Dixon himself began
vomiting in the same manner as the chill
dren. He had not eaten any cream, he
said, for five years before and he was sat
| isiled it was the cream which caused his
sickness. Before long the entire party was
sick, supposed to have been caused by the
cream.
Some one started in hack for Camp
| Graham to summon the physician there
Within short time he was on the scene,
reaIlzed the trouble when told the party
had been eating ice cream, and did what
| he could 10 relieve them
When II was seen they were revivns
Mr.. Dixon was advised to get them to The.
city at once. There was a train at the
Iybee station at the time, which he char
tered through Supt Saussy Only one car
and the engine We're used, as that fur
nished ample accommOda tions TO get the
party to the city. Mr.. Dixon telephoned
DR.. e. Fl. Nichols to be at the train, in
order that there might be no delay in Civ
ing attention to the children, none OF
whom had recovered.
AS soon as the train reached the city the
party were taken home. DR.. Nichols went
first to Mr.. Dixon's house. then to Mr..
LlndSays, while DR.. Stone went TO Mr.
Osborne s. The closest attention was given
the children, who had not recovered. ex-
cept from the first effects of the vomiting
some OF them cried for ice, while others
showed the effects of the poisoning differ
emily. Little Merritt Dixon was proba-
bly the worse sufferer, and was placed un-
der the influence Of morphine.
Ihat the sickness was caused by the ice
cream is believed by those who suffered
from 1t to be without doubt. Even those
who took a teaspoonful of the cream
showed the effects of it by vomiting. the
cream being thrown out in a curdled mass
1t is possible where certain things are
eaten with ice cream that sickness and
whiting follow, but in this instance there
seems 10 have been nothing eaten which
could have produced such an effect.
The maker of the cream was puzzled
The cream, it was said, was manu-
tactered with the greatest care after
winch 1t was packed in porcelain-lined
cans, removing any possibility of contact
with tin. over fifty gallons were sold
during the day, and complaints had come
from no other sources. Other cases of sim
liar sickness were reported in different
parts of the CITY, the person having eaten
heartily of ice cream. DR.. Stone said that
he could not say the sickness was caused
from eating cream.