Show MEAT KillS THREEt THREE t IN COLORADO Three Others May Die From Froni Eating Home Product Product Product Prod Prod- Eight Are Suffering but Expected to Recover STERLING Colo Feb 26 Three persons are dead here three are in a critical condition and eight others are ill as the result of ot eating poison sausage The malady has I been diagnosed as botulism The dead are Tony 35 I years years old his daughter Grace 9 years old and Neno Nerio 17 years old All the dead and sick are are members of ot an Italian farm colony in the Merino Atwood com corn John brother of ot one of the tho victims and Doninic Cametto are patients at the Sterling tal The death of ot Joe year old son of ot Tony I first to be affected by the poison is isI expected momentarily while Mrs I the wife and mother Is dangerously ill at her home near Atwood On Oll last Friday evening members of ot several families gathered at the homo home of Tony five miles south of Sterling to make sausage A large quantity of or the food was prepared and a portion was served at an evening meal The sausage then was divided among those who helped In making It and quantities were taken to the four or five homes hames I During the night Tony was taken ill m. A physician who at attended attended at- at tended failed to diagnose the affliction afflic afflic- tion daughter Grace also became ill Saturday The rhe affliction became acute Saturday night and a second physician was called from Sterling Before his arrival however however however how how- ever and his daughter were dead As soon as the poisoning was traced to the sausage warning was sent to the several families and it was found In several homes that this meat was being prepared for tor breakfast One after another ten persons In the several families were taken ill m. Three were brought to the Sterling Sterling Ster Ster- ling hospital where Neno died yesterday |