Oct. 25-1928
Death Laid To Gas Poisoning
Carbon Monoxide Vapor Fatal To Mrs.Cleora Fletcher, Doctor Decide
Medical authorties at Miami Baptist hospital this morning pronounced carbon monoxide gas poisoning the cause of the death of Mrs. Clara Fletcher, 17 years old, employee of the Boster cafe, who died yesterday afternoon at the hospital after being discovered unconscious in her room at the Pinnell apartments, 28 A street, northeast the day before. Persons who found Mrs. Fletcher in her room ststed that a gas stove was burning in the room and that the heat had become oppresive. The generally accepted theory of her is that she went to sleep with a fire burning and little ventilation in the room , failed to wke up as the carbon monoxide fumes generated when oxygen became ????? and finally inhaled enough of the gas to cause death. One part in 10,000 of caebon monoxide gas in the air has been known to be fatally. Ernest Fletcher , husband of the woman, returned to Miami yesterday morning from the Seminole oil fields, where he had been working. Other relative are her mother, Mrs. Flora Hillight, of Seminole, one brother, Arthur Reed of Commerce Okla., and six sisters, Mrs. Delia Lowery of Southwest City Mo., Mrs. Eva Sargent of Purcell Mo., Mrs. Zelphia Barton of Commerce Okla., Mrs. Helen Waston of Deerfield Mo., Mrs. Lola Larutz of Joplin Mo., and Mrs. Ruth Butler of Commerce Okla. Burial, G.A.R. cemetery, Miami Okla.
Cleora was the daughter of James Scott and Flora B Womack Reed and the wife of Earnest Fletcher. The birth date on headstone is 1910 but she was 16 when she died.
Death Laid To Gas Poisoning
Carbon Monoxide Vapor Fatal To Mrs.Cleora Fletcher, Doctor Decide
Medical authorties at Miami Baptist hospital this morning pronounced carbon monoxide gas poisoning the cause of the death of Mrs. Clara Fletcher, 17 years old, employee of the Boster cafe, who died yesterday afternoon at the hospital after being discovered unconscious in her room at the Pinnell apartments, 28 A street, northeast the day before. Persons who found Mrs. Fletcher in her room ststed that a gas stove was burning in the room and that the heat had become oppresive. The generally accepted theory of her is that she went to sleep with a fire burning and little ventilation in the room , failed to wke up as the carbon monoxide fumes generated when oxygen became ????? and finally inhaled enough of the gas to cause death. One part in 10,000 of caebon monoxide gas in the air has been known to be fatally. Ernest Fletcher , husband of the woman, returned to Miami yesterday morning from the Seminole oil fields, where he had been working. Other relative are her mother, Mrs. Flora Hillight, of Seminole, one brother, Arthur Reed of Commerce Okla., and six sisters, Mrs. Delia Lowery of Southwest City Mo., Mrs. Eva Sargent of Purcell Mo., Mrs. Zelphia Barton of Commerce Okla., Mrs. Helen Waston of Deerfield Mo., Mrs. Lola Larutz of Joplin Mo., and Mrs. Ruth Butler of Commerce Okla. Burial, G.A.R. cemetery, Miami Okla.
Cleora was the daughter of James Scott and Flora B Womack Reed and the wife of Earnest Fletcher. The birth date on headstone is 1910 but she was 16 when she died.
Oct. 25-1928
Death Laid To Gas Poisoning
Carbon Monoxide Vapor Fatal To Mrs.Cleora Fletcher, Doctor Decide
Medical authorties at Miami Baptist hospital this morning pronounced carbon monoxide gas poisoning the cause of the death of Mrs. Clara Fletcher, 17 years old, employee of the Boster cafe, who died yesterday afternoon at the hospital after being discovered unconscious in her room at the Pinnell apartments, 28 A street, northeast the day before. Persons who found Mrs. Fletcher in her room ststed that a gas stove was burning in the room and that the heat had become oppresive. The generally accepted theory of her is that she went to sleep with a fire burning and little ventilation in the room , failed to wke up as the carbon monoxide fumes generated when oxygen became ????? and finally inhaled enough of the gas to cause death. One part in 10,000 of caebon monoxide gas in the air has been known to be fatally. Ernest Fletcher , husband of the woman, returned to Miami yesterday morning from the Seminole oil fields, where he had been working. Other relative are her mother, Mrs. Flora Hillight, of Seminole, one brother, Arthur Reed of Commerce Okla., and six sisters, Mrs. Delia Lowery of Southwest City Mo., Mrs. Eva Sargent of Purcell Mo., Mrs. Zelphia Barton of Commerce Okla., Mrs. Helen Waston of Deerfield Mo., Mrs. Lola Larutz of Joplin Mo., and Mrs. Ruth Butler of Commerce Okla. Burial, G.A.R. cemetery, Miami Okla.
Cleora was the daughter of James Scott and Flora B Womack Reed and the wife of Earnest Fletcher. The birth date on headstone is 1910 but she was 16 when she died.
Death Laid To Gas Poisoning
Carbon Monoxide Vapor Fatal To Mrs.Cleora Fletcher, Doctor Decide
Medical authorties at Miami Baptist hospital this morning pronounced carbon monoxide gas poisoning the cause of the death of Mrs. Clara Fletcher, 17 years old, employee of the Boster cafe, who died yesterday afternoon at the hospital after being discovered unconscious in her room at the Pinnell apartments, 28 A street, northeast the day before. Persons who found Mrs. Fletcher in her room ststed that a gas stove was burning in the room and that the heat had become oppresive. The generally accepted theory of her is that she went to sleep with a fire burning and little ventilation in the room , failed to wke up as the carbon monoxide fumes generated when oxygen became ????? and finally inhaled enough of the gas to cause death. One part in 10,000 of caebon monoxide gas in the air has been known to be fatally. Ernest Fletcher , husband of the woman, returned to Miami yesterday morning from the Seminole oil fields, where he had been working. Other relative are her mother, Mrs. Flora Hillight, of Seminole, one brother, Arthur Reed of Commerce Okla., and six sisters, Mrs. Delia Lowery of Southwest City Mo., Mrs. Eva Sargent of Purcell Mo., Mrs. Zelphia Barton of Commerce Okla., Mrs. Helen Waston of Deerfield Mo., Mrs. Lola Larutz of Joplin Mo., and Mrs. Ruth Butler of Commerce Okla. Burial, G.A.R. cemetery, Miami Okla.
Cleora was the daughter of James Scott and Flora B Womack Reed and the wife of Earnest Fletcher. The birth date on headstone is 1910 but she was 16 when she died.
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