Doris Cranshaw, Woodrow Street, Struck on Leg.

WAS BEHIND WAGON

Reptile Also Bites Mule – Child Delirious Within Short Time After Being Struck.

Little Doris Cranshaw, seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Cranshaw, 1103 Woodrow street, was desperately ill at her home last night from the effects of a snake bite she suffered Tuesday afternoon about 6 o’clock near Blaney. The right leg, which the snake struck, was badly swollen and she was suffering considerably.

The little girl, in company with a number of other girls and boys, was in a corn field on the Kirkland place, about seven miles from Blaney, late Tuesday afternoon, and little Doris who was barefooted, was trying to climb in the back of the wagon which a mule was drawing through the field. As the mule was going along through the corn, he gave a sudden start, and a moment later the little girl felt something strike her leg. No one saw a snake.

The leg began to swell almost immediately and it was quickly seen that the child needed treatment. She was first taken to a doctor at Blaney who rendered first aid and then was brought on to Columbia, and was delirious at times, the heart action showing the effects of the poison. Tuesday night two physicians and a trained nurse were with her almost constantly making every effort to save her life. She was very ill all day yesterday and last night was reported as being a very sick child. The fact that the snake struck the mule just before it struck the child is thought to have lessened somewhat the amount of the venom injected into the wound.

The mule was also seriously affected by the bite of the snake but so far as could be learned last evening was still living. He was bitten on a hind leg.