The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-14
SCREAMS OF CHILD
Cause Much Excitement on
West Side.
ABSURD RUM0RS AFLOAT
Caused by the Absence of a
Story Teller
ABSURD RUMORS AFLOAT
The west Side was excited yesterday

The West Side was excited yesterday
terribly excited for a hot day
Some time ago a little girl named Iva
Davis received severe burns al her home
at Clearwater and was brought to the
hospital for treatment The physicians
at the hospital commenced a system Of
skin grating and the case naturally be-
came very interesting. especially in the
neighborhood of the hospital.
Yesterday morning the child was heard
screaming in the hospital building and
soon all kinds Of wild stories were adoat
One person said that an operation was
being performed and this rumor grew
rapidly into q story to the effect that
the doctor realizing that the child could
not live, concluded TO experiment with
her One wild rumor had it that the
brain Of the child was to be removed
for the purpose Of ascertaining how long
life could last after such an operation.
The stories were all ridiculous, but
when people are excited they are willing
TO believe anything.
The facts in the case are theset
For some time a man who is in the hos
pital has been coming to the chid's
room and telling her stories and amusing
her in various ways, but yesterday morn
ing he was confined TO his bed and could
not come and the child screamed and
yelled because she could not have the
stories. She is very wiIlful child and
often has spells when she will scream and
wall as If she was being tortured or
several days. Several people who had
visited the child ard knew it from the
time it was brought here, told an Eagle
reporter that the child was very willful
and nervous and at the smallest provoca-
ton would break out with its yells and
screams. The child has always had the
best OF care and at no time since It has
been in the hospital has the bill for band
ages been less than "a per week and
sometimes the bin has reached $40 per
month. The doctors receive no money
for their services and the county has
paid all the bills.
Several weeks ago there was a runor
that the nurses had tied the child's hands
together and had kept them that way
for so long that they had grown together.
Yesterday afternoon when an Eagle re-
porter saw and talked to the child she
was making pictures on cards with col
ored yarn and had the use Of her hands
as wei as any person that was com
PEELED to lay on her face all the time.
The child seemed as happy as anyone
who could possibly have been in the same
circumstance. The little girl has been
afflicted for more than year and a great
many people have taken an interest IN
the case and when she begun to scream
yesterday morning and the reports that
had been circulated. the people on that
side were very Indignant
No operation that would be detrimental
10 the life Of the child he's been thought
Of and only those which were necessary
have been performed Six operations
have been performed. all OF them were
grating skin to the burnt place and ell
Of these with the parents consent The
last operation was performed about six
weeks ago and at the rate Of improve
ment that has been shown since then If
IS possible that there viii be no more
There is n space about four inches square /
IS all that is left of the burn that is
not healed and that is healing rapidly.
The sore in the first place reached from
the shoulder to below the thighs and was
very painful
The wound was caused by falling into
the FIRE on March 81. 1900. when the par
ents were burning trash in the yard at
their home near Clearwater The child
was playing around IT ana fell backward !
into the fire. The child has been in the
hospital a little more than a year. DR..
Hoffman has charge Of the case at pres
ont