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Show lllll lBBBBBUBV llralln br iliyilnllon In lil- IIbbbbbbbbbI Ciiictao, Octolc 31. A Cfirnnfefa H sisclalsayii I u some sections cf Hydu ' H Park It would are m now that residents iH who retire for tbu night aud leava ! H their gas burnlug low aru lu aa much H danger us If they weru sleeping In a I"bbbbbH grove ol deadly upas trees. Thu gas sbbbbbeS lurnlshrd by thu Mutual Fuel Uaa H comiuny Is said to bavo canted already aH more than fifty deaths within the Issl ' sbbbbbbbbW twehe months. Huudrnda of people H havu had nairow escacfl from deiitb, E and many persons who havu teen j bbbbbbbbbbI found di ad lu thulr rooms with thegas H Jet turned ou havu been reported as I H sulcldea by tho iollc und coroner, I H when It Is now bcllevid that thulr ' 'bbbbbbbbbbt deaths weru due to the earelrssiiosBOt JBi tho Mutual company. Thu deaths, or i 'H i many of them, havu been caused In JsbbbbbbbbV this manner: Thusuiply ol lllurolnat- fSsBBBBBBBBal i lug gin sent through thu pipes ot thla bbbbbbHI coiuany has for daya been ao small bbbbbbbHi that only alllckurlugllamu would dart 'HibbbbbbT 1 up now and thun from llghtod Jots, IbbsbbbV. O leu no llama nt all was prod u cod, Ibbbbbbbbtj Thla v. as caused by thu pressure going HHil down. Many persons tiling fuel gas laBBBBaV would go to bod at night aul leave a SbbbbbbbW gas et lighted and turned low, ' flflP During tbo night prrsiuru through I sSsbbw thu mains would go down and the light Hbbbbw at the Jet would go out. Alterward 5lB"' tho I ressure would eomo uo and again ialS' gas would pour out through tho om HK-n itand till tho loom. Death often fol- IrJrV lowrd. I url gns Is odorless aud can- n 3 not bo detected, honco tbo greater a 191 i danger, (las Issues from uu crilll ary MKr Jet, but uakea only a blue tlaipo, iml.il which la almost Invisible and gives no UK light whatever. It la whun this bluu IRw llamu cornea lu contact with a small uHLaW comb madu of magnesium that n gH wbllu light U produced. When the JM tlumo Is feeble a slight brcczo will f WW) blow It out and eicapfng goi Illla tho l wfm room. j ft Mi Conilalnts havo bcon numerous jl I among thu lutrors of tbe Mutual com- M LM pauy, who claim that thu gas haa i; nl.1 given poor and unsatisfactory light I. WJW over half the tiino time tbo comrany r im began oporatlug. I lually, when ', 1M funerals carao to bo u onmmon occur j Rfl renru, theru was n general outcry. till i Within tho last seven daya six nor '111 sons hao been klllnl by asphyxiation, j 1(1 They nre, HortlsUoddard, 401 or til. fill sixth street; John F. Ulasnler, 101 ,- Forty-sixth street; Thomas Cole, 4ioU .' IM Cottage Uiovo avenue; Mrs Tliomiu f m t'ole, -ISJ'J Cottage Orjvo avenue; A, 'Mfle It. Collins, -Mil CotlagoOrovenvenuet r' '.Ml Mrs. A, It. Collins, IjJI Cottage Urovu k& avenue, 1IlV 'lhoiowliobnvo Leeii overcomo by , SbT' tho cllccla of gas, but who will rucovcr, 'I M nre: Prank Nelson, Lakoaveuuu, near ; IM Fifty-second street. Jamea Johnson SaM and wife, 71 I lltl-lHlli street; W. M. 1 flH , dunning, -JJ57 1. van's avenue; Mrs, laTli W. M, buiinlug, loS7 Uvan's avenue; Hrln Ida Johnson, L71 i'llly-tlltli ltleet;a ; Mil doiueutlo In thu employ of Mrs. Dale, ilfflji Jillerson avenuu und I'Kty-lourth iRKSM l'laie. I Hetfe A Uaria Jinn filial. ( 'H MONItun, Mux., Oct. 81 A. o. ii Uriugo, formerly editor o! LuJirlsu, Hf a- H a revolutionary pa er of Ban Antonio, Jj H Tex,, baa been nrruted hero, court. d, 1 1 fl marllaled aud shot for fomeutlng thi j ;, li mW Uaue rovolullon. !( I "j MM Mum llvJUll mm ''inRsBBBal |