A Stricken Family

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1873

A Stricken Family.

If you are in the habit of whining about your “luck,” read this concerning the family of Mr. Jasper Baker, until recently a resident of North State street: Three years ago, Mr. Baker was a conductor on one of the North Chicago street railways, and the happy head of a family consisting of a wife and three interesting children. On the 4th of July, his wife went to visit a sister at Aurora, taking the children with her. On the same day, Eddie, her eldest child, a boy of six, while attempting to catch a ride on a freight train, was run over, and had a leg and foot cut off. His little sister, a child of two, was so appalled at the sight that she was thrown into brain fever and died. After returning to Chicago, the crippled boy was seized with small pox, and infected the rest of the family, including Mr. Baker’s mother and sister. Mrs. Baker died, and her husband, not sufficiently recovered, in attending her funeral, took cold, and after six months of suffering, died a few days since. Finally, on Saturday last, the elder Mrs. Baker received a dispatch summoning her to the deathbed of a daughter at Elgin.—Chicago Times.