The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-04
Grand Forks Boy and Girl
Have Miraculous Escapes
From Deaths.
TWO SEPARATE ACCIDENTS
on SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Little Child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Matt Of International Avenue on
Verge Of Violent DeathTswallowed
Two Grains of Morphia- BY
Prompt Application Of Emetics.

On Saturday afternoon two acct
dents happened in as many Grand
Forks homes, both of which came
dangerously near proving fatal to two
young children, and each one gra-
phic illustration Of the danger result
ing from carelessness in the homes
where small children romp the floors.
About o'clock Saturday afternoon
the one and one half year old boy be-
longing to Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Matt
who reside on International avenue,
was found coughing and suffering in
the deathly grip Of commissions.
The child had gotten hold of box
of morphia which had been prescrib-
ed for another member of the family
and had been left lying unguarded in
the room, and in playful mood had
put several of the grains in her mouth
and swallowed them. When the MEM
bers of the family discovered the
child's condition he was already close
to the portal Of violent death due
to morphia poisoning.
Doctors were hastily summoned, the
almanacs were consulted and quickly
prepared emetics were applied in the
frenzied efforts to prolong the boys
life until the arrival of medical aid.
The little tot had taken four of the
half-grain tablets in the box, a dose
heavy enough to send fully matured
person to quick death, but it was
probably due to this fact that the child
survives. As it is the boy is still in
a precarious condition though 1t Is
expected that good care will pull him
through all right.
When the doctors arrived on the
scene of the accident the little lad
was almost on the brink Of eternity
for though resuscitating methods
scientifically conducted were applied
by the physicians, it was some time
before the tot revived sufficiently to
remove all immediate apprehension
on the part of the almost heartbroken
parents.
The physician who has charge of
the case said to an Evening Times rep
resentative this morning, Eyes it was
a very, very narrow escape and one
which should prove valuable, though
rather hard lesson to the parents.
There is too much of this leaving pois-
onous drugs around the house when
at any moment the little mites OF
humanity romping the floors may be
sent to an awful DOOM through un-
knowingly partaking therefrom. The
case at the Matt home should be TAX
en- to heart by every mother and father
in the city who should make 1t point
to see that drug6 especially those in
lozenge form, are carefully stored
away in the medicine case. We worked
over the Matt child for some time
applying absorbents. and medicines
before we were able to say for sure
that 1t would live"
Saturday afternoon the Giller block,
: also on International avenue, was
the scene of an accident which might
easily have resulted in a terrible
death to the four-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John McPhee.
The child in some way set fire to
her clothes and when discovered by
the mother was running around the
room in IN agony of pain with her
clothes all aflame and the crue! red
tongues darting and Pickering around
her tiny head.
An older boy was in the room at
the time of the accident and it was
due to his efforts combined with those
of the terrified parent that the little
girl is now alive.
1t appears that she was in the room
adjoining that in which the mother
was working and, getting possession
of box of matches proceeded to play
with them on the floor. She must
have stepped on one of them or lighted
it while squatted on the floor for when
the sixteen year old brother who was
in another part of the room was
awakened to activity portions of the
girls clothes were in a burst Of
flames.
Although heroic measures were
adopted by the boy and by the mother
who had been alarmed by the screams.
the cruel flames were not quenched
until the child had been very badly
burned and marked for life. The low
er part of the back and the hips were
terribly burned and a patch of epider-
mis- nearly foot square was peeled
of, leaving a livid scar to mark the
spot.
The child was otherwise badly burn
ed. An idea of how the flames en-
veloped the body may be gained from
the fact that the hair on the back of
her head was entirely burned away.
The burns were not of the ulcerating
kind due undoubtedly to the prompt
action of her brother and mother, and
because of this recovery is looked
for.
The child was the only girl of
family of several children and the con-
sequences of the accident were felt
even more deeply perhaps because
of this fact. One of the boys, Barney
McPhee was for several months
bell boy in the Hotel Dacotah
Lots of people try to conceal them
selves among the branches OF their
family tree.
Big bargains In wallpaper and
nouldings ct J. II. Lambe.