Show dej DEATH IN C A BALL ROOM I 1 sun man wl ad woman and ed others wounded AIT ENTIRE FAMILY FOUND DEAD A sickening scene in a kansas town 7 strychnine sup supposed posea to be ba the cause A special to the times time s from independence kansas pays one of the tha most horrifying 0 discoveries was made this mornin morning when al brown son bon in law of ceorge george W head manager of the long bell lumber company broke cixto iato the house of the latter arid and found read clad only in his night clothes sitting dead in a chair before a red b hot ot stove fed by natural gas the body was in an advanced c pontoon pon tion edith scott a domestic of the family was lying a lead dead on the floor of lie her room and mrs read and her 5 year old son were in bed the boy dying arid and the mother unconscious I 1 the terrible tragedy is shrouded in mystery many theories are current as to the cause one being bein asphyxiation another accidental poisoning another foul play the fact that two gas stoves in the house were buining 0 hatfull at full force practically explodes the theory of asphyxiation and the fact that no bruises were round found on either cither person renders rende rs the murder theory almost iacre incredible d leaving accidental p poisoning poisoning oiso ning as aa the quoit probable cause none of the family was wa seen later than saturday evening leaving ro no doubt that head and the domestic had been dead thirty six hours before bein being discovered every room in the house was intensely hot and there being no ventilation tj the he fumes from the badly decomposed bodies of the dead were stilling stifling an all autopsy was held today but nothing definite can bo be ascertained until analysis of the stomachs pan can be completed the coroner will hold an inquest tomorrow to morrow morning LATER doctors after examination have decided tho the family has been poisoned by strychnine nina which had probably gotten into the food mrs read is still unconscious but the doctors have hope of recovery the boy will probably die A TEXAS SOCIABLE fa A telegram from columbia texas gives an account of st a wholesale murder at al cedar E N williams was dancing on n the floor and aroused the animosity of lemon gewo 0 gayle who demanded williams to surrender his place on the floor williams refused but gayle became boisterous and williams start tid from the room when gayle his brother london gayle and bob early began firing aring at williams and others othen london gaylo gayle shot through the window and killed a boy named waddy when another boy isaac scott remarked london gayle has haa killed waddy whereupon london turned and saying 0 what is ia that to you shot the boy through and through killing him instantly then a general fusillade fusi lade followed from guns and pistols A woman was waa shot through the breast and is now nov dead lemon ravle fravle is shot through the bod body y and will die A girl was helot in the face near the eye and another equale in the middle of the head A boy was shot through the ar arm m anc and another through the right hand and others received various slighter wounds after lemon gayle was shot his brother london rn in and stood over the prostrate body winchester in hand arid and pumped cald lead into the panic I 1 stricken dancers who were ivere unable I 1 to get out of the house to avoid ills his awful vengeance three are arc dead anil and the fourth fatally wounded two sarious seriously ly and about half a dozen have minor |