Show J W LAKE AND FAMILY HAVE JARROW ESCAPE mr and mrs J W lake cf cattle dale and basil ind annie two of the children came nearly being asphyxiated on wednesday doimi g by the escaping gas of a coal heating batove in one of the bed chambelis cham beis the stove had been heape 1 up with coal before they retired for the night and either the damper in the pre was closed inadvertently or dropped shut all pal fell asleep before the escaping fumes de and as usual y such cases the inhalation of the gases tended to make all the more un broken some time after 1 clock mis lake awakened dead than alive with a throbbing headache and with a struggle managed to get out of bed she made several attempts to strike a match but the atmosphere of the room was too dense and failure re suited feeling faint and find ng that the guedes of hei limbs would not support her she awakened her husband and expressed the op mon that she was dying it was with ame difficulty that she aroused mr lake whose condition ads about the same as her own mr lake found that he too could scarcely stand upon his feet but managed to get to and open an outer door and partly revived by the inhalation of fresh air he awakened the children Chil dien in the ad a ng rooms it waa at first thought that something they had eaten the night beacie was poisonous and dr tinges was sent for who attributed the trouble to the escaping gas and administered to all tho so affected the sto e was pf the open front or rad t pe and all of the gas from the shouldering ing fuel had escaped into the room and much of it found its wa into the lungs of the sleepers the stove was in the bedroom of the children and the gas entered tha bed chamber of mr and mrs like through a commom eating door which was left wide open the children were less affected than the older people but were quite sick as well had ml and mrs lake leep ng in the other room they per haps would have ne er aw wakened all have been sick since the occurrence occur ence but are now about well |