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Show Family Suffocated By Coal Gas Fumes Lehl Farmer, Wife and Daughter Are Asphyxiated While In Bed ' " ' Lehl, Dec. 28. Joseph Smith, farmer, 28 years of ngc; his wife, 2C, and a daughter, 4 wero found dead In Hvlr home, throo miles nortl. of Lehl, shortly nfter 10 o'clock this morning.. Tho startling discovery was made by Mrs. Ellen Smith the mother of tho young man. Asphyxiation, Asphyxi-ation, from gas genoratod by burning burn-ing coal, caused tho deaths. Tho threo deaths followed an evening eve-ning df pleasure Mrs. Ellen Smith, her boii, his wlfo nnd tho llttlo girl remained up until about 11 o'clock, eating nuts nnd other delicacies and thoro was no promonltlon of tho tragedy when all had prepared to re-tiro. re-tiro. Mrs. Ellen Smith went to her room and Smith and his wlfo and daughter retired to their bedroom, which In n small ono nnd which, because be-cause ot tho cold weather was tight 'y closed. As thoro was no flro In tho room occupied by Smith and his wlfo and daughter, a bucket of glowing coaU from n coal flro was taken In and placed nt the foot of tho bed for the purposo of Increasing tho temperature tempera-ture Owing to tho fact thnt tho family had been up unusually late, Mrs. Smith tho older, did not got breakfast break-fast as early as usual, and It was after af-ter 10 o'clock when sho went Into tho room occupied by hor son and fnmlly to awaken them. Sho was horrified to find them dead. Smith was lying on the floor near tho bed, nnd Mrs. Smith and tho llttlo f,lrl wero In tho hod. Tho authorities nt Lehl wcro notified noti-fied and tho county physician nnd sheriff made nn examination of tho bodies. Tholr opinion was that death resulted from gases generated by tho burning coal nnd it Is not llko'iy that a formal Inquest will bo held. Mr. Smith wns born In Lehl ond Is survived by his mothor, a brother John Smith of Preston, Idaho; two brothers, Hyrum and James Smith of Lehl, nnd a slater, Mrs. Claudo Hlton-man Hlton-man of Lehl. Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kemp of Lehl Junction. |
