OBIT: Son WEAVER, 1859, Bald Eagle Furnace, Blair County, PA

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Death by Snake-Bite. - We learn that on Thursday of last week, about 
one o'clock, a little boy of six years, - son of John Weaver, who lives 
about two miles above Bald Eagle Furnace - followed a cat to the lower 
end of the garden, when a rattlesnake bit him eleven times, just below 
the knee.  Another little brother called to his father, who was at some 
distance, that his brother was bitten by a snake.  The father ran, 
picked up the child and put some clay on the wounds, for they were 
bleeding profusely; the then carried it into the house, but before 
reaching the house, the child became deathly sick, vomited copiously, 
and was soon entirely helpless.  A physician was sent for, but about 
nine o'clock the next morning, death put an end to the little fellow's 
sufferings.  It is thought that the fangs of the snake had struck a 
leading artery, which carried the poison throughout the child's entire 
system at once, so that nothing could be done for him when the 
physician arrived.

Tyrone Star, Tyrone, Pa., September 3, 1859