Minnie OERTELL
1912 - Gas Nearly Causes Death

Aged Couple Found on Bedroom Floor - Mrs and Mrs Erdman Leidhold Have Narrow Escape.

Mr and Mrs Erdman Leidhold, and aged couple living at 610 North street, were found in an unconscious condition in a bedroom of their home yesterday morning, as a result of inhaling gas that escaped from the stove in the room. Harry Andler, an employee of Bigley's bakery, accustomed to call at the home each morning, received no response to his knock yesterday, and looking through the window he saw the couple lying on the floor in their night clothes, and making attempts to get to their feet. Mr. Andler telephoned the police, and officers were sent to the house in the patrol. It was necessary to break in the front door, and the officers made the old folks as comfortable as possible while awaiting Drs Roberts and Sullivan, who had been summoned. The stove door in the room where the couple were found was open about an inch, and all drafts were closed. Mr. Leidhold was found lying close to the bed with the clothes over him. Mrs. Leidhold was lying on the other side of the room. Had the couple been discovered an hour later both wood have been dead. They are over 80 years old. When the doctors arrived both were removed to beds out of doors and will recover in a few days without serious effects. Mr Leidhold sleeps out of doors while the grass is green, and has not had a day's illness in 40 years.


Date: November 23, 1912
Location: Massachusetts
Paper: Springfield Republican


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