Death from Spotted Fever -- Chauncey K. Sias, Local Stock Broker, Dies at Longmeadow Home.
Chauncey K. Sias, 45, a local stock broker, who formerly lived on the Hill, but has recently made his home in Longmeadow, doed there late yesterday afternoon from cerebro-spinal meningitis, or "spotted fever". Mr. Sias had been ill but a few days, first feeling unwell on Monday while at his office in the Court Square theater building. The following day Dr. A.O. Squirer was called, and being unable to go at once himself, sent Dr. Henry J. Walcott Hr., who reported symptoms of cerebro-spinal meningitis and later in the day when Dr. Squier visited the patient there was no longer doubt about the disease. Everything possible was for him, but it was seen from the first there was little chance of his recovery. Where Mr. Sias contracted the disease is not known. He was recently in New York, but it is doubted if he contracted it there. Mr. Sias was a native of Woburn, being the son of Chauncey R. and Abigail F. Sias. He had lived in this city for a number of years and had his home on Buckingham street until last June when he moved to Longmeadow and occupied George W. Allen's house. A widow and three children survive him, and his father and sister also lived with him.
