The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-15
TWO CHILDREN ARE DEAD
BROTHER AND SISTER DIE WITH
IN FIVE HOURS.
FATHER WAS RECENTLY KILLED
Already Distressed with the Death OF
Her Husband in Front OF a Train,
Mrs. August Haase is Overcome
With Sad Death OF Two Babes.
INrnm Thnradnn,s DnIlNl

With Sad Death Of Two Babes.
From ThursdaYs DniiyI
Two littlo children in the home of
Mrs, August llausc, whose husband
met death at railroad crossing near
his farm few weeks ago In front of
Il northbound Bonestecl passenger
train, suddenly succumbed Thursday
afternoon.
The dead are:
Baby Max Haase, aged three months,
who died at 1 o'clock.
Little Emma llaase, aged two years,
who died at O'Clock.
DIR. Tashjean, who was summoned
after the baby had died and while lit
tie Emma was Ill, states that she died
in commissions but he can not account
for the cause of the commissions. The
mother of the dead children says that
little Baby Max died in the same kind
of commissions which caused the death
OF the elder child five hours later.
The Mothers Theory.
The theory of the gricfstricken
mother is that her baby, which had
been i'll ever since its birth three
months ago, succumbed to its illness
in a convulsion and that the two-ycar.
old sister, excited by the grief of the
PROSTATE mother, began crying hys.
terically and later went into COnvul.
sions from this hysteria, dying five
hours afterward.
DR.. Tashjean hardly believes that
this excitement could have caused the
commissions without some other indis
position on the part of the child He
is at u loss to account for the cause
When he arrived the baby was dead
and the little girl, though everything
was done for her, by placing her little
form in hot water, etc, survived but
a short time.
Ate Beans; No One Else III.
DIR. Tashjean thought at first that
perhaps ptomane poisoning, from
something that had been eaten, might
have caused the one death, but he
says that this theory is hardly borne
out when it Is learned that all others
of the family also ate beans at noon,
which the children ate, and also had
eaten on the day before, and none but
the two dead babes became i'll.
Mother Overcome.
The unfortunate mother is over
come with her sorrow. She had just
q IA a ,I,,
month before her husband, at a road
crossing of the Northwestern railway
near his farm, was killed in front of
passenger train. The mother, her
nerves being subjected to severe shock
at that time, was not strong afterward
and the little infant child did not gain
in strength from week to week. 1t
was therefore not wholly unexpected
that his energy should give out but
the death of the two.year-old sister,
making the third death in the family
under peculiarly distressing circum-
stances within a couple of months, has
been difficult one for the attending
physician to explain.
Funerals Sunday.
Since the death of her husband, Mrs.
Haase has been suffering severely from
the nerve shock. 1t is said that she
has scarcely eaten at all and that her
friends have had difficulty in. getting
her to take enough nourishment to
keep alive. For this reason the nour-
ishment given to her child has been
slight.
1t is said that little Emma was of a
sympathetic nature and that when
ever her mother was in grief, she
would climb upon her lap and try to
give comfort. 1t is said that she tried
TO comfort her mother over the death
of her little brother, and went into
commissions as a result. There are
three other children in the family.
The dual funeral will be held from
the home at 10 o'clock Sunday morn
ing, and from st. Paul's Lutheran
church at 1920 o'clock.