El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-22
DEATH RELIEVES MEXICAN BOY FROM
TERRIBLE AGONY FROM HYDROPHOB|A
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called to say a final prayer and the
heartbroken old father began what he
knew would be the death watch for his
little son. Just at midnight with ihs
tongue swollen and black, his body
twisted with the rigors Of the awful
pain and his bright. intelligent face
care-lined, the little fellows agony
ended and for the first time since We'd
nesday, he rested.
The Boys Home.
The Tarango home is a little frame
house in the rear Of 1O16 East Missouri,
and is reached by going through a rear
gate which opens onto Franklin street
opposite the G. H railroad yards. One
room is the kitchen and the larger one
opening off Of it is the bedroom, where
a large bed and cot furnish sleepin g
accommodations for the Tarango family.
It was on the little bed, a spring cot
with a sheet and pillow over it, that
the sufferer lay Scarcely II, and small
for his age. the boys cotton nightgown
failed 10 cover the emaciated little chest
and throat which was pain gripped until
the poor little chap constantly shrieked
and threw himself almost out OF bed.
Pallad in the reflection Of the smoking
oil lamp and with his bright boy face
scanned with pain lines the lad suffered
through his last night on earth.
But once did he quiet himself and
that was when the round faced father
from the Sacred Heart church called.
Drawn as If he was suffering as
acutely as his little nino, the old father
sat last night as he had sat for two
nights and two long days keeping the
vigil by the side of his boys bed. Not
once would he leave the little sufferer
even to eat and he would not permit
any Of the sympathetic neighbors to re-
Heve him of his bedside watch.
Time after time the lad tried to
drink, always with the same result Ig-
norant Of the real. cause. the neighbors
secured straws from the nearby beer
saloon and placed a napkin over the
water glass thinking II they could pre-
vent the boy from seeing the water in
the glass it weuld be possible for him
to drink il. But the irritation Of the
muscles choked him with a gasp and
although he succeeded in getting a
mouthful of water, he could not swallow
it. Il can't drink he said in the Eng
lish that he had learned at the Amer
lean school. Il can't drink, 1t hurts too
bad
The negro Victim.
Sitting, Thursday night, in the rear
end Of a wagon which had been left in
front of her house on South Broadway,
was the owner of the puppy. She had
been bitten the same day the Tarango
causing him such intense suffering and
cost him his life. She was Blanche
Crockett, a Regress, who lived near the
Tarango home but lately moved into
small house on lower Broadway be-
tw cen Fourth and Fifth. The woman
said she had given the dog to the boy
and his playmates telling them to put
1t in sack and kill It Before doing
this she said that Alberto proposed Civ
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and it was while attempting to force
the oil down the throat of the puppy
that he received the bite on his thumb.
The negro woman was also bitten by
the puppy the same day, She says, al
though she has developed none of the
symptoms of the dread disease and says
she is as well as ever. When told of
the boys sufferings she did not appear
frightened When advised to go at
once to the doctors for the preventa-
tive she said she would think about it,
her manner indicating that that was
as much as she expected to do. She
said she had been given the puppy,
which was a small brown animal. only
three months old, by Mrs. Nora Smith
living at Ala South Virginia street.
She>satd the puppy had been sick for
two or three days, due, she thought. to
having eaten too much meat. The ami
NAL would run around in a circle and
seemed to be suffering pain. The day
the boy and herself were bitten, the
puppy was acting drOwsy and she said
she told the boys to take it away and
kill It This they refused to do, she
claims, but the Terango boy thought
he could save its life by giving 1t
dose Of medicine
DR. BurlesOn Staten, who is familiar
with the symptoms of hydrophobia,
having had the case of the son of c. w
Blakey, who died with the disease sew