The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-11
BLOOD VESSEL
RUPTURED
Causing the Death Of VIII
EbenhaCk.
RESULT OF OVER EATING
He Had Completed a 80 Days
Fast but a Few Weeks Ago.
RESULT OF OVER EATING

At half past one Sunday afternoon
VIII Ebenhack died at the home of WIZ
Hoenscheit. ss Riverview avenue. from a
ru7tured blood vessel rlis is the young
man who on October first completed q
fast Of thirty days il The hope OF cur
ing stomach trouble HIS dcath was the
direct result OF that fast on the Thurs
day after his fast was completed he ate
3 poaehed egg and the next day ate
nearly Two pounds OF candy. Since that
day he ate heartily az every meal and
often rose IN rhe middle OF the night
and ate a lunch
Soon after he finished his fast he be-
lieved that be could eat al lie desired
without injury and also anything MS
appetite cravcd. He are whatever he
wished ard The strain on the digestive
organs resulted IN his death.
After his fast vas over 1Lr. Ebelhack
gained thirteen pounds in weight ana al
the time OF his death he weighed three
pounds more th1n when he began his
fast he was happy and joviaI all OF
the time, more 20 than during the months
before he began fasting when the ter
rible pains came over him He became
devot Christian some days ago and his
one desire was to have peace with every
ore His last words wers Cod is love"
sunday al noon h seemed perfectly
happy and joized with his relatives. He
was sitting in the parior Of the home
talking % Mr.. Hoeuscheit whea he
walked 70 a chair.
a change lad come over him. He was
very quiet He leaned back in the chair
and muttered God il love- and gasp4d.
He tried 70 speak a gain but all his fF-aRds
heard were ths words God IL love-. the
Grst two words ia strong voice and
the last barely audible His head drop
ped on his chest. and his lie had ended.
Dr.. Hunter WHO was called after q
careful examination. pronounced death
due 70 the rupture II a blood vessel near
the heart this rupture caused by the
over ezerrion on the vital organs due u
his sudden resumption % hearty eating
after so long a fasy.
WI Ebenhack was born III Leaven-
worth thirty-nine years ago and has
lived the greater part OF his life IN Kan
Eas. Il learned the printers trade
While 4 boy ard followed = ever since.
He worked FOR years for the Western
Newspaper Union IL Texas and came
here some ter Years ago for number
OF years has been the pressman Of the
Wichita Herold Office Re was married.
BE was = nan ef strong VIII and perse-
veranee and was hfld IL the greatest !
respect by all who knew him. STEADY
r. his work and pleasant he made friends I
wherever he worked with the men with I.
Of friends in this city The funeral VIII /
be held this afternoon az two O'clock +
from the residence u John Hoenscheit. /
s. Riverview- Interment wiz be IN
Highland cemetery
The story # the fasting as given in the /
Eagle Of October IS as follows
For years 1Ir. Ebenhack has been -
sufferer from stomach trouble. Some (
weeks ago he read in an eastern paper f
the account of the thirty days fast Of
Dr. Earle Purinton n 1Iorgantowa. "
Va. and determined 10 TN the same
remedy and followed the doctors ex-
emple 70 the letter and all Of the tire
he hiss hHed HIS position ~ pressman ot /
the Heroid Office.
For a number II wears ny Ebenhacz +
used tobacco. a great quantity Of IL each /
day. and this braught On stomach (
trouble. A little mere thar a year ago
he stopped The use Of tcbecco but the f
terrIble pains continued. He tried two T
or three doctors. one told him DE he5 f
a cancer u the stomach. another catarrh .
and another an ulcer. he used patent
medicines. but the only way b could
GET relief W-s n lie down on the floor
for = few moments and ths pains would