The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
TRAGIC CHAPTER IF FATAL EVENTS Explosion Kills One and Injures
 Others Fatally SAD CASE OF POISONING Mother Gives Medicine to Two Sons and One Is Dead-Young Man
 Is Run Over by Train
 and Killed.
SAD CASE OF POISONING

Meridian, Miss. July 27.-tSpecial. J. AS a result of the boiler explosion, Fri | day at the saw mill of NJ. w. McDan l iels, at Moscow in Kemper county, one man, the colored fireman, Is dead, | while M. W. Mcdaniel and his son, , George, and Ph elan McDaniel and his brother Frank are seriously and per | haps fatally injured The mill was | completely demolished, the explosion | being due, it is said, to the careless ness of the negro, he having turned cold water into the red hot boiler. The negros head, arms and legs were blown from his body, and fragments of his clothes and flesh were found in tree top 50 yards away.
 Leon Price, 10-year- -old son of MT. and Mrs. Moody Price, is dead and | Moody Price, Jr., 13 years old, is in Il precarious condition as a result If poisoning Following a hearty supper Saturday evening the mother of the | two boys decided that they were in need of some salts. She fixed up two small doses from a small package of salts which had been purchased a few I days before from a small grocery in ! the eastern part of the city. At the | same time she also made two glasses Of 1 lemonade for the lads to drink after l they had taken the salts Both boys | took the medicine prepared for them ! and also drank some of the lemonade. | At 8 o'clock they went to bed and ap- 1 parently dropped off to sleep at once. ! At S30 o'clock the father detected
 heavy breathing coming from their
 room and at once went to see what was l the matter.
 All efforts to arouse the boys were
 without avail. Physicians were sum l moned and 1t at once became known
 that opiates of some unknown charac-
 ter had been administered to the boys. | For three hours the physicians worked
 with the elder boy before they suc-
 ceeded in awaking him. heff efforts,
 however were of no avail with the younger of the two boys, and he died
 without regaining consciousness. It is the belief of the members of the family 1 that the opiate was in the salts which the boys took. There is still some of the salts remaining In the boX ana this | will be analysed, as will also the sugar I which was put In the lemonade. The
 salts was in an ordinary pasteboa d
 box and was prepared by local wh ole sale drug firm.
 young man giving his name as 1 George Boswell and residing at St.
 George, Ga. died today at a local hos pital, the result of being run over by
 an outgoing freight train, which he at. tempted to board in order to get to Birmingham The accident occurred | about o'clock in the morning ard the young fellow was not found until
 about 6 o'clock, almost dead from loss
 of blood. His right leg had been sey- cred at the hip. The unfortunate | stranger lost consciousness en route to
 the hospital and never recovered. Not
 q scrap of paper or anything else was found in the lads pockets. A telegram 1 was sent to c. Boswell, at St. George, Ga. who the hoy said was his father.
 but no answer has been received. Tie ! remains are prepared for burial but
 are being held pending some word from ! the above town.