Faust children - drink poison
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal
Friday, 26 April 1901
Grace Faust, aged 12, and Aaron Faust, aged six, were terribly poisoned while playing about
the barn of their father, Richard Faust, near North Union. While clambering
about in the barn they found a whiskey flask filled with what they supposed to
be whiskey. They concluded to play at “grown up folks” and each of them took a
hearty pull at the bottle. They were not long in realizing that they had taken
carbolic acid instead of liquor and hastened to the house to their mother. They
burst in upon her shrieking with pain, their lips and faces discolored by the
powerful acid. Mrs. Faust called for help and at once applied what homely
remedies she had on hand. A doctor was summoned from New Market and the
children were worked faithfully with until he arrived. It was feared that the
boy, who suffered terribly, would not live until the doctor came.
A telephone
message from North Union last Saturday stated
that both children were alive and may recover.