BABY CHOKES TO DEATH.
Small Screw Lodged in Child's
Trachea, Quickly Proves Fatal.
From swallowing a small screw a quarter of an inch long, Laura, the 15-months-old baby of Thomas and Bridget Mullins, 921 East Twenty-first street choked to death at 2:10 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Everything possible was done to save the child and the ambulance of No. 4 police station, with Dr. H. A. Hamilton, was driven at full speed to the place, but the screw had lodged in the trachea and strangulation followed the accident in twenty minutes. Mrs. Mullins was prostrated last night.
The father is in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
