Denton County Newspaper

April 5, 1891 (page 2)
Fort Worth Gazette
SERIOUS BLOOD POISONING

A Man's Arm is a Sad Plight, Caused by Being Cut with a Plow - An Interesting Case on Trial at Denton.
Denton, Tex., April 4, Mr. Jacob Cole, a prosperous farmer living nine miles north-west of here, is suffering from a very strange and dangerous case of blood poisoning, and is hardly expected to live. Several days ago while he was plowing he accidentally stuck the point of the plow in his hand, which caused him from the first very great pain. The wound looked to be trivial, but a physician was sent for, however, on the next day, but the hand and arm was at that time in a bad condition, and while it seemed necessary to amputate, it was thought by the physicians that he could not survive the shock which would naturally follow. The flesh of his hand, it is said, has sloughed from the bone. What caused so small a wound to so suddenly assume such a malignant form is difficult to understand.

 

Last Name	First Name	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Last Known Residence
Ford	Levi	05/06/1889	10/00/1955	Pilot Point

 

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