Clark, Robert -- 1859 - 1869

CLARK

Posted By: Iowa Old Press
Date: 9/27/2011 at 14:26:16

On Washington Prairie, Winneshiek county, on the 30th inst., Robert Clark, ten years old, was bitten by a rattle-snake, one of the large yellow kind, half way between the ankle and knee of the right leg. The boy lived a week, and though the most active remedies were applied, finally died from the effects of the poison. The Decorah Republican adds. "Among the sad features of the disease were the characteristics of the snake evinced by the patient. The hissing sound, darting the tongue, the green glary eyes, snapping of the teeth, and contortions of the body."

~Dubuque Daily Herald, August 10, 1869

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