The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-04
Minneapolis
LITTLE ONES DIE
OF DIPHTHERIA
Disease in It's Most Malig-
nant Form Kills Three
LIE Brun Children.

The black shadow of death hovers
over doorway on Finley place. With
in the house of Martin LIE Brun, silence
| reigns where childrens laughter rang
and the little rag doll the baby played
with week ago, lies just where the
child abandoned it.
Black diphtheria has killed three Of
the LIE Brun children in a week. First
the baby girl, laughing and joyous one
moment, lay PROSTATE the next, and in
few hours was dead
Helen LIE Brun, little seven-year-
old, favorite with her teacher and
schoolmates at the Lyndale school, re-
NAMED absent from schoEl after the
baby died, but few of the children who
loved her and whose companion she
had been were able to realize within
twenty-four hours, that Helen, too, had
passed from their ken forever
The little folk of the school house
subscribed their pennies to a fund
that bought flowers for dead hands to
clasp and then stood whispering in
frightened groups, for word had been
sent to the school that Harry LIE Brun.
a bright, manly little chap, had taken
the plague and was dying And later
they knew that Harry, too, was gone
from the school house ground never
10 return. Some of them went over to
the house and stood outside staring
Whlte-faced at the mystery of the black
crepe.
There are four mere of the LIE Brun
children Now i'll with the most maIig-
nant type of diphtheria. DR.. Foote.
who has attended the cases from the
t1rst, has hope that ell these will re-
cover. He has used 10000 units of anti
TOXIN In fighting the disease, and no
man could have been more unremit-
ting in attention.
Night and day the parents have
watched and nursed the sick and dy-
ing. The 12year- boy, Harry.
might have been saved but for a ter
i1ple frenzy of delirium that resulted
IN fatal exposure.
watching, and on Friday night Law
down beside his son, who seemed to
De rather improved. LIE Brun fell
asleep, and was awakened by a crash
OF crockery down stairs. He awoke
with start to find the sick boy gone
from his side. He reached the lower
moor at a bound and the Door child in
MS delirium ran shrieking straight
Tor plate glass window in the front
OF the mouse. He crashed through it
INTO the street, rolled over, regained
MS teet and ran, a little white wrath
with pallid face and staring eyes far
into the fierce cold of the night. 1t
was 10 below zero.
In an instant LIE Brun was after the
child, and after half a block he found
the cfazed little chap pounding with
ms baby hands at the door of a bak
cry. The father tore off his coat and
vest, wrapped the boy in them, braced
Tor the house and put the invalid to
PED cut the ssischief had been done.
When Dr. Foote arrived there was
pneumonia to complicate the dipther-
etc poison, and Harry LIE Brun was
past saving N'
1t is no disgrace to LIE Brun that the
iamlly is poor-very poor The father
IS stonecutter and a hard working
man. Df. Foote, who objected to the
use OF his name in connection with the
case, speaks mostly highly of LIE Brun
as man and a father.
LIZ. FOote offered to lend LIE Rrtln
money He refused it, but consented
10 take from the city authorities the
antltoX1n to save his children's lives.
Win promise to pay for it ultimate
~ . put the city hospital people would
not issue the antitoXin unless the cases
We're given into their control, DR.,
oote understood the cases and the
Ia1nl1y depended on him. DIR. Foote
represented this to the city hospital
a;uthorities, but they still refused to
tHsue tne antltox1n: whereupon the
doctor stood good for every atom Of
medicine used by the-Le Bruins. and
doesn't expect to lose a cent by it.
There seems to be some prospect this
morning that the children now i'll NAV
pc pulled through. They have had the
mos eare1ol attendance, and an i'm
most serious cases this morning. one
daughter, an adult, has so far escaned
1nieclon and the parents, though de-
oli1tated and exhausted by long vigil.
may escape.
Harry LIE Brun was buried yesterday
beside his two 1itfIa cicto-e -