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Show Remarkable Fatality Attributed At-tributed to the Fumes of a Gas Stove - JCenton, O., Dect24Six people, two women, and four men, wero found dead today in two rooms in a building at tho rear of tho opera house. The Dead: MR. and MRS. CLARK LATHAM. PEARL KENNEDY. "WILLIAM KENNEDY. HARRY JsEWCOMB. MISS ELIZABETH BAILEY. Were Asphyxiated. The clerk of the restaurant on the first floor received no response to his repeated calls and went to the rear room and saw four of tho bodies lying about tho room. It is supposed the fumes from a gas stove killed nil six persons. Latham was found lying on the floor, while his wife was sitting in a chair and had fallen forward upon a table. Newcomb was on one side of the room and the Balky girl on the other. Both had fallen backwards when overcome over-come br the fumes. All the parties In the room wore dressed while the two Kennedys who were regular roomers In the building, were in bed and were evidently over-j come while asleep. |