Show A A fifteen month boy drinks lye another ol 01 those heartrending heart rending cases that have been altogether too frequent in this vicinity occurred on saturday afternoon resulting in the death of the bright little son of george and emma everett of the sixteenth ward salt lake city A little girl had been scrubbing the floor and in this labor had been using some concentrated lye she had used all out of the bos as she supposed and had rinsed it in the tub about 2 p in she rinsed the box again and refilling it with water placed it on an article outside of the door it had been there but a short time when parley L everett an infant not quite fifteen months old came along and took a drink from the box the small quantity of lye that had remained around the edge of the can had dissolved and burned the poor childs mouth throat and stomach medical assistance asa istance was summoned and as it was thought that possibly the deadly poison was not present in sufficient quantity to do serious injury every effort was made to count its effects and the child of its sufferings but the terrible work had been accomplished and between 4 and 5 sunday afternoon after about afi houra of fearful agony the babe relinquished its hold upon life it was born in salt lake city april it is impossible to describe the ter able grief of mr and mrs everett at the fate of their little one the poor mother especially was fairly distracted tr news |