Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Kentucky Boy and His Brother Meet Horrible Death While Playing.
Willie, aged seven, and Eddie, aged nine, sons of Matthew Cox, a farmer living near Mannsville, Taylor county, Ky., met terrible deaths from rattlesnake bites the other evening.
They were playing hide and seek with some other children and Willie ran into the bushes and failed to reappear at the proper time. Presently Eddie heard cries from his little brother and, hastening to his aid, found, as he at first thought, that he had become fastened in the hollow of an old stump.
In trying to pull the child from the stump Eddie discovered that four big rattlers were biting Willie time and again. Badly frightened, but determined to rescue his brother, Eddie reached in for a better hold, and was himself bitten repeatedly.
The cries of the two children attracted some men and they were finally rescued from their perilous position, but not until they were past all aid. One died in five minutes and the other in ten.
The four snakes were killed, and it was found that the youngest child had jumped into their nest in the hollow of the old stump.