Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-08-08
Dying LADS WILD RIDE.
He Went For Doctor 10 Save the
Whole Family From Death.
HAD EATEN T0ADST0OlSAT MEAL
Little Thomas's Thrilling Ride From
Harvey to Homework, III n Distance
of Three Miles-Ue Was Half Clad
and Almost Crnzed WIN Pain -
BOY Died I'm tho Physicians House.

Harvey. III. CSpecian. Mrs Edith
Norris, Maud Norris and Thomas Nor
ris are dead. the result of eating toad
stools. which they mistcok for mush-
rooms. Others poisoned are ]. a.
Norris. Eva Norris. Edith Norris aud
Robert Smith. Thomas Norris, thir.
teen years old. undoubtedly saved
all those vet alive. Half clad and
suffering with pain. he road bareback
to IIomcwood. three miles away. and
fell exhausted as he reached the house
of physician. lie die! SOCH after,
hut the doctor reached :hc Norris
home in time To save four of the seven
who ate the deadly toadstoO,V.
The NorrscS are we'll KrNwr H. TIar-
vcy. There were seven in rhc fam
! lily, and they were SO well acquainted
that IL seems strange they should
have mistaken toadstools fo~ mush-
rooms. But they did. and soon after
their meal MI Were writhinG in pain.
They were dcathly sick: they were
miles from telegraph office and there
was no telephone that could he
reached. If they all were not to die
and must he called, hut 1t seemed i'm
possible that any one of the sufferers
could undertake the trip.
But little Tommy volunteered. He
had Il vigorous young appetite and had
partakcn unSpairingly of the deadly
! toadstools and SO it was that he was
suffering more than any other of the
family. But that was as nothing to-
linn; he knew he must go. and he did
hn
reach llomcwood. which was three
miles away. and the home Of the near
est doctor. before the pain would
cause him To fall from the horse.
The lad WAS only half clad but he
did not wait to dress: no more did
he waste precious moments in putting
saddle ON the horse. 1t was with
the greatest difficulty that he mounted: :
by the halter he hung on while hu
Spurrcd the horse TO his swiftcst over
the rough country roads.
The cXcrtiun for which he was 50
untitled. coupled with his agonizing
illness. told So upon the boy that lust
aS hc reached the door of the Doctors
house He yelled ms he dropped. and
this brought The physician to the
door.
! The lad was carried into tie house
and the doctor was about 10 treat him
when the brave little fellow gaspcd
out
Don't mind me. doctor: please go TO
: the house, for papa and mamma and
the others are worse than | am"
There was no doubling the truth OF
what he said. and the doctor. giving
haSty directions for his treatment left
for the Norris home. The six others
in the family were so i'll that the doc
tor could do nothing for two of them
and they died before the night passed,
but four Were brought around by the
, liberal use of antidotcS.
But wien the physician returned To
his home it was TO find the brave lit.
tie fellow had passed away.
Woman'- Drive to Save Husbands Life
Tcrre lIautc. Ind. (SpeciaD Mrs.
| Frederick Frey drove ten miles to
West Tcrre lIaute mt breakneck speed
with her unconscious husband at her
side. In the hope of reaching n doctor
in time to save her husband from
bleeding 10 death. Frey severed an
artery in his ankle while telling II tree
Her husband is not expected to rccov.
pr.