AN AWFUL FATALITY.
SEVEN KILLED BY COAL CASON THE EVE OF WEDDING CELEBRATIONS. [per press association..] OTTAWA, Jan. 16. At Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on the eve of celebrating their golden wedding, Mr and Mrs McNicholl found the dead bodies of their six grandchildren, and also of their daughter-in-law, who had been asphsyxiated in their home in the prairies. Snow and ice had choked the stovepipe, and all the inmates had been killed 1 by coal gas. The husband was absent in Winnipeg, . arranging for the wedding celebrations of his parents.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3426, 18 January 1912, Page 5
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89AN AWFUL FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3426, 18 January 1912, Page 5
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