The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-22
DEATH CAUSED BY TRIPLES.
Csan Francisco CalI9

Men and women die every day in
ways as peculiar as incOmprehensibie.
The story of the man who, having
Travelled the world over, braved tropic
dangers and arctice vieissitudes and
checkmated death in thousand ways
and under a thousand different dis
guises. came home to die by a fall from
his own doorstep, is discounted daily IN
actual life.
A Chicago woman talked herself to
death not long since. Literally and act
ually cut off her life span with her
tongue and her teeth. For over ten
Yeas she had never stopped talking,
by night or day, asleep or awake. A
nervous woman and a great talker al
ways she lost her mental balance
decade since and commenced to talk
without cessation. Gradually growing
weaker she yet talked the more I'M
ceasingly. A particularly rapid and
vOluble flow of words left her, at last,
literally short of breath She had
talked herself into eternity.
Last year another Chicago woman,
leaning over the rail of her back porch
TO look into the yard below, lost her
balance and fell, killing herself in
Stantly. Another woman severed an
artery in her wrist while peeling pota-
toes and also paid natures last debt.
A Denver man was not long ago
Strangled by the loose rope of a
clothesIine tapping in a high wind. He
was adjusting the line, which ran on
pulleyS set between the back porch and
the top of an adjacent building and
the loose end of the rope was blown
around his throat, twisted tightly, and
carried far out of his reach. the end
becoming entangled in another part
of the line. The unfortunate man was
unable TO loosen its grim embrace, the
high wind being stronger than him
self, and the pressure caused by the
wind slowly straugled him. Another
man swallowed a bit of the metal with
which he was endeavOring TO patch up
shabby picture holding and was
checked to death also. This man had
served in the civil and Spanish-Amer-
lean wars and had followed the sea
for many years. Death claimed him,
after threatening Intellectually many
times, just at the time when no dan
ger seemed at hand.
Through two smallpox epidemicS and
turn or two of yellow fever South
ern physician rendered magnificent
service, without even the threat of ILL
ness fer himself Mending the broken
baseball of a bOyish friend he pricked
I his finger The leather had evidently
| become imbued with some poisonous
substance which the needle, in passing
drought it, carried into the uncon-
sciOuS mans finger. Blood poisoning,
severe agony, death resulted. Once
I
sistably brought in mind.
A little child, week or two ago.
fell into a a tub Of scalding water and
was drowned. His mother had set tubs
of SCalding water on the kitchen floor
every wash day since he had been
born. Many times they had been full.
The tub which killed the poor baby
only contained a little of the cruel
fluid. But the baby swallowed just
enough to kill him. A St. Louis man
was drowned a little while ago by fall
| ing head first into a huge barrel of wa
/ ter set to catch the drippings from the
! caves. The water was only about two
| feet deep in the barrel, but the man,
unable to recover his footing or to up
/ set the heavy barrel, was FASTENED in
! to another world. Last Fourth of July
a. man was suffocated by the fumes of
| the fireworks ne had provided for the
delight of his children. He wanted TO
/ see how brightly the cOlOred flame
/ would burn, so he lighted a little of the
powder in his own room and lay
watching it flare and flicker until he
( fell asleep. The door was closed the
/ window but slightly open. with d heavy
! screen between it and the bed. The
! man was dead when found, suffocated
/ as slowly and surely as though by the
/ aid Of the famous charcoal burner of
| France.
| The murderous pistol which "won't
/ go OFF, is famed for its deadiiness. but
| the "haShIight piston of the amateur
/ photographer has yet to acquire a rep
| utatiOn of this order. Yet an English
{ girl had her life snuffed out like a
! candle in the wind because of one of
/ the pistols a month or so ago. The
/ room which she desired to snap" was
| large and dark; her charge of fash
/ light powder cOrrespOndingly heavy.
/ The pistol seemed determined not to
! behave as it should After two or three
! Intellectual efforts to discharge it the
/ girl raised the guileleSS looking instru-
/ ment to her face. Bending close to in
! vestigate the interior it went Off sud
denly. A musket in the mouth could
/ not have blown off her head more eff
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