Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — FIERCE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. [ARTICLE]

FIERCE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

Mother and Two Sons Nearly Asphyxiated Before Attracting Help. In Terre Haute Mrs. Josephine Paraway and her two sons, John, aged 32, and Clarence, aged 24, suffering from asphyxiation, struggled for many hours to get fresh air and call for help, and when John reached a window and attracted the attention of some boys he fell unconscious to the floor. When the physicians arrived the three were almost dead. John, besides suffering from asphyxiation, had a badly dislocated shoulder. His brother aud mother weae in a most critical condition, the brother having spasms. The gas escaped from a baseburner stove and filled the rooms of the cottage home. There was evidence in the upset chairs and the disarranged bedekrthing of the desperate efforts to get to a window or door.