Eleven children have died from drinking poisoned water from a brook at Newark, Vt., and two others are not expected to live. The brook had been polluted by the carcasses of some sheep and a horse. A Mrs. Morse lost two children, Mrs. Aldrich two, Mrs. Carpenter three, and two other of hers it is said will die, taking her entire family.... The latest dispatch received states that two more children of John Aldrich have died from drinking the poisoned water, making five - his entire family. Mrs. Aldrich is insane
Eleven children have died from drinking poisoned water from a brook at Newark, Vt., and two others are not expected to live. The brook had been polluted by the carcasses of some sheep and a horse. A Mrs. Morse lost two children, Mrs. Aldrich two, Mrs. Carpenter three, and two other of hers it is said will die, taking her entire family.... The latest dispatch received states that two more children of John Aldrich have died from drinking the poisoned water, making five - his entire family. Mrs. Aldrich is insane
Gravesite Details
Orleans County Monitor death notes that all five children died from Diphtheria.
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