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Wedding Feast Poisons Guests.
WEDDING FEAST
POISONS GUESTS.
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Nearly One Hundred Persons
Taken Seriously Ill After
Celebration.
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CAUSE IS NOT KNOWN.
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James H. Thomas, Living Near
Bath, N. Y., Who Was Host,
Also Taken Sick.
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BRIDE AND GROOM ON TOUR.
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Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 24.--[Special.]--Over ninety persons were poisoned last evening at the home of James H. Thomas, a farmer residing at Coss Corners, four and one-half miles from Bath, Steuben County. All the afflicted are suffering intense pain and fatal results are looked for in a number of cases. A dozen doctors are in attendance upon the sick.
The occasion of the gathering at the Thomas farm was the wedding of their daughter, Nellie, to Clarence Carr, mail carrier of that section. The young people are popular and over 100 guests assembled to witness the ceremony and partake of the wedding feast which followed.
Late last night the guests departed after the newly married pair had taken a train for the Pan-American Exposition. During the night and early this morning those who attended the wedding became violently ill and all the doctors in Bath have been summoned to different parts of the county to attend the sufferers.
Many in Serious Condition.
The majority of the patients are in a serious condition. Among the sick are the Rev. Dr. George R. Sherer, Bath, who performed the ceremony; four of Andrew Annibal's family, two at the home of Clayton McAdams, Mrs. Maggie Mason, George Bowlby, Jasen Platt and family, James, John, and Frank Miller; James Little and family, Mrs. Church, Eva Townsend, a school teacher; two of James Thomas' family, Robert Robinson and family, Minnie Leghey, Mr. and Mrs. George Willlams, Morton Williams, the family of Wilson Marsh, and Mrs. Kellogg.
The exact cause of the poisoning is not known. Drs. Wyncoop and Grant, who returned to Bath tonight, said that all of the sick they attended were suffering from a marked gastro intestinal irritant. They considered the most of their patients out of danger. They reported that others were being stricken tonight.
Theorize as to Poison.
Several theories are advanced as to the cause of the poisoning. Some attribute it to trichina in the ham, but Mrs. Charles Foster, who is afflicted the same as the others, says she did not eat any of the ham. Canned stuff served at the supper is blamed for the poisoning by many, but the most general belief is that grapes, which had been sprinkled in the vineyard with a poisonous solution and of which nearly all the guests ate freely, is the cause.
The doctors have been too busy looking after the sick to determine the exact cause. No word has been received from the bride and groom, and it is not known whether they are stricken as the others.
Source:
Unknown, "Wedding Feast Poisons Guests," Chicago Daily Tribune, Friday, 25 October, 1901, Page 5.
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