KinSource - Tale of the Week - House Full Of Coal Gas

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Minnesota Tales

The St. Paul Daily Globe, October 1, 1895, p. 4

HOUSE FULL OF COAL GAS.

Some of the Sleepers Needed a Doctor.

Mrs. Mary A. Kennedy, who keeps a boarding house at 480 Cedar street, and her two daughters, Katie and Susan, has a narrow escape from asphyxiation by coal gas last night. The furnice in the basement was started last evening and when the occupants of the house went to bed they did not observe anything dangerous in the atmosphere. Between 1 and 2 a. m., one of them awoke and found the house filled with coal gas. The inmates were all aroused and Mrs. Kennedy and her daughters were found to require the attention of a physician. They are not in a dangerous condition.