Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — FATAL GAS EXPLOSION. [ARTICLE]

FATAL GAS EXPLOSION.

BoUdin* Wrecked and Whole Family Meet Death at Indianapolis. At 1 o’elock Wednesday morning in Indianapolis an explosion of natural gas demolished the house at 600 Madison avenue, occupied by Louis Keuhler, his wife and four children. Rosa Keuhler, a 12-year-old daughter, was killed outright and the rest were fatally injured. They are Louis Keuhler, Mrs. Keuhler, his wife, and three sons, Louis, Jr., Julius and Charles. The house was a two-story brick and was blown to pieces. The cause of the natural gas explosion is not known. The ruins were immediately enveloped in flames. The fire department was called out. but it was an hour before the last of the injured were extricated from the wreck. Julius and Charles died soon after. The other boy and the parents cannot recover It is supposed that the gas had accumulated m the cellar, and finding its way through the floor above ignited at a ' gas jet or an open fire-place.