O’DONNELL, Daughter c1890 – 1900

O’DONNELL

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/22/2020 at 14:53:46

Source: Decorah Republican Nov. 15, 1900 P 4 C 2

New Albin Globe:—One of the saddest deaths it has ever been our misfortune to chronicle occurred on the Sand Cove Sunday morning, when the ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard O’Donnell choked to death on a kernel of corn. She was playing with her little brother near the corn crib and both were eating the yellow kernels from the cobs. Her father has repeatedly warned her not to do this but child like she soon forgot his advice and as a result met one of the most horrible deaths human nature can conceive of. The kernel lodged below the larynx, or trachea, and in struggling, the particle of corn was forced upwards and was held unresistingly by the walls of the wind pipe. Had the obstruction lodged in one of the bronchial tubes larynxotomy might have been applicable, but destiny ruled otherwise and a bright young life paid the penalty. Her death occurred in five minutes. Medical assistance summoned from New Albin arrived too late to be of any assistance.