Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17
HARRY F. ANDERSON,
POISON GAS VICTIM,
DIES IN AGONY
Succumbs Less Than "a Hours
After Stricken. Same as War
Victims at Fighting Front.
RESULT OF RECENT INJURY

Suffering from an affiiction which
surgeons who came in contact with
the cas~s declare showed every evil
d.nce OF gas poisoning. such as killed
- many men on the actual fighting
front i'm Europe during the war.
Harry y. Anderson, aged % years, of
EOS Lombard street. died at the
homeopathic Hospital Tuesday morn
irg less than twenty-four hours after
he had been admitted to that insti-
tuition for treatment for what he
thought was nothing more nor less
than n slight nail puncture in the heel
of hts left foot Anderson was buried
Yesterday afternoon at $50 O'Clock
from the home OF his father. David
Anderson and inteTment was made in
the Giverview cemetery. Rev. Ernest
Q. Greenfield had charge OF the ser
vices and members Of keokuk Tribe
No. :. l. q. ". NJ. OF which he was
fncnnl,er acted as pallbeaers. He was
also a member ~ the T. O. s. Of a.
During the war Anderson worked
as a car inspector at the Todd's Cut
~aops and never got To the fighting
front which makes his case all the
more strange About year ago he
injured his left heel, but paid no at
tention to n as il did not bother him
any. lie was laid on at the shops in
January and since then has worked at
various places. his most recent EN-
ployment being with a grocer in the
Eighth street market house.
last Friday he jumped from
truck he was driving and bruised his
heel again and later found that
nail in his shoe had punctured the
ficsh. The wound was So slight he
paid no attention 10 il and on SatuF-
day last he was al work as usual, al
though he then limped slightly be-
rause the injured foot was hothering
him aome. On Monday morning his
foot and leg had swollen 10 such
size that he could not put his shoe on
and Monday afternoon about
oclcck he was taken TO the Homeo-
pathic Hospital
Anderson was then suffering from
= nvulsions. which became 80 violent
thai ne had 10 be strapped in he'd.
The physicians who examined him did
not fnd any evidence OF tetanus or
iocsja~ but they did end evidence Of
blood poisoning. The leg was then
opened The surgeon who operated
vas in the army and saw much work
right al the front in France. He
handled many gas poison cases and
Knows Just what they are and he was
somewhat asronished upon opening
Anderson's lee 20 find every evidence
a. gas poisoning. Everything possible
was Done for the young man, but he
Expired Tuesday morning about
o'clock, not more than twelve hours
after he had been admitted TO the
hospital and less than twenty-four
hours after his foot and leg started 10
hurt him.
The execretions from his leg are
beng examined in a laboratory here
and in Philadelphia TO determine il
na was actually a victim Of gas poison
ing. Il was stated today that there is
4 germ known 70 medical science
which causes gas poisoning, but
which is extremely rare in this coun-
trv. There has been but one other
such case in the medical history OF
Wilmington and that was found about
a wear aro in the case Of a man who
broke his leg. His death was similar
70 Apderson's When a victim does
rst such a germ into his system II j.
aid death is swift and almost sure,
fef il has been found the germ kills
Al almost every instance within
twentv-four hours. Many cases of the
lina were found among the soldiers
IN France, but the appearance OF the
raalady in this country has caused
sa1rprsSe among doctors who are al
q loss 10 account for its being here