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Show FOUR ESCAPE DEATH BY TELEPHONE CALL Spoiditi to The Tribune. O'Jl MCX. Dec. -JS. Mrs. M. J. Watts, her daughters. Miss Nellie Watts and Miss l.ucile Watts, and her sister, Mrs. I -. P.. lh Mk'l;ain of I enver, narrowly escaped es-caped death during the nltfht as a result of a as pipe leak in their home. The ; iii.inj; of 4 telephone bell at V o'clock this morning averted the tragedy. Snortly after 7 o'clock this niur:nv.K the telephone in the Watts home, -14 Twenty-seventh street, rang and Miss Nellie Watts rose to answer. After tak-Ijil; tak-Ijil; down the receiver and saying 'J1er.o" she fainted. Iter brother, Howard Watts, sleeping In th.e next room., was awakened by the noise and rushed to her rescue. He summoned Dr. Uoy Wilson and th.e women were rescued. Howard Watts dee'iares his mother smelled teas' last nitrht and notified the gas company. The Inspector was sent and declared it was sewer gas. Thecity engineer was then called, but declared that it could imt be sewer gas as ail the manhob-s on the street were open. This morning another inspector from the cas company found the leak, under the fToor of thf- bedroom. With the exception of Mrs. Watts, the victims are only slight-1 slight-1 ;y injured, and Dr. Wilson expresses ! belief that Mrs. Watts will recover. |