Show YOUNG WO WOMAN I IS VICTIM II OF DEATH Unable to Eat Speak See lear Hear or ol Move loyc for 13 Weeks FRESNO Calif June 25 Dy By By ByThe The Associated Press Iress Victim of oC ofa a a. living death Mrs Clara Drum Drum- Drummond mond year old Fresno woman today entered the thirteenth week of at a strange coma that has attract attract- attracted ed nationwide nallon Ie attention Her con condition dillon has not changed April 4 when she was discovered unconscious clous In a gas filled room at her home homo here By Ity her bedside hovers her hus bus husband husband band W. W E. E Drummond a sailor on ona ona a a. liner litter to China Chin at the time hIs hla wife entered her strange sleep He did not hear what hat had befallen her until he returned later to Se Seattle Se- Se attic attle and read ren a newspaper dispatch dis dis- dispatch patch concerning her condition HUSBAND D HOPEFUL Resigning his hla position he be came cameto to Fresno and watches by the bed bed- bedside beIdl bedside side Idl hoping hoping- In the face of at the pre pre- predictions predictions dictions of at death eath by b attending phy phy- physicians physicians that he ho will be rewarded by b some sign of ot life liCe Medical science has done all in Its power to break brenk the strange coma At the county general hos has hospital pital she lies Inert breathing but that Is all Physicians are certain that she Is suffering from Crom gas poisoning Mrs Drummond Drummon has clung to life lite for more than 2000 hours al although al- al although although though she site Is unable to eat speak hear see move her limbs or body and anti Is unmindful of pain She Is forcibly fed ted through h the nostrils with milk and orange Juice Her eyes remain open In daytime but not to see At night they close GAS AS POISONING POISO Gas poisoning physicians say destroys the nerve centers of ot the brain controlling speech locomotion locomotion tion and coordination of ot muscles but does docs not affect the basic tune tune- functions of at life respiration life respiration digestion and circulation Mrs Drummond was found un un- unconscious unconscious un- un unconscious conscious at the home of or her sis sis- sister ter and in brother Mr and Mrs Thomas Bracklis Leaky con con- connections connections on a gas as heater were found |