Show PATHETIC INCIDENT Diphtheria Sweeps Away All of a Family of Seven Children Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch RACINE Wis Oct IA pathetic inci I dent today marked the progress of an epidemic epi-demic of diphtheria during the last two weeks which has carried off many children dren and has the closing of several of the public schools Two weeks ago the family of Peter Helt of 1000 Pearl street consisted of father mother and six chi dren The oldest daughter contracted the disease at a funeral She died on Sept 19 The remaining children one by one came down with the disease and another died on the 33d and still another on the 27th Yesterday Yes-terday morning the three remaining children dren lay stretched out in the houso awaiting await-ing burial having died last night The mother is almost crazed with grief and is In 1 precarious condition |