Saturday and everything seemed to be all right then. Yoder that he had visited his parents around 10 p. Yoder said the couple had been dead for several hours. Adams is believed to have arose from bed and collapsed as she went to open a door as the fumes sickened her. The son then crawled into the house through a ventilator on the roof. Adams and his son, Harold, fifteen, went back to the bungalow and tried to force the door open but were unsuccessful. She returned to her home and notified her father. Looking in through a window she saw her grandmother lying on the kitchen floor. She tried to open a door but found it locked. Alvin Adams, whose home is nearby, went to the bungalow to awaken her grandparents. Yoder said he learned that Catherine Adams, thirteen, daughter of Mr. Yoder said the fumes were thrown off by a second-handed kitchen stove which may have been defective.ĭr. They also lived in Ephrata some years ago.ĭr. They resided in Newmanstown, Lebanon county, before moving into the house. The bungalow, a Christmas gift from their son, Alvin, of Lititz, only became occupied by the couple three days ago. Yoder, deputy coroner of Lititz, made an investigation and issued a verdict of asphyxiation by coal gas. The victims were Samuel Adams, sixty-eight, and his wife Katie Webber Adams, sixty-five, of Lititz R. by a granddaughter who went to their home to awaken them. Granddaughter Discovers Tragedy In New Home Occupied 3 Days.Ĭoal gas snuffed out the lives of an elderly couple in their bungalow near Lititz on Sunday. Samuel Adams Victims of Coal Fumes Near Lititz. Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, PA), Monday,, pgs. PA Death Certificate #8142 lists parents as Frank Webber and Caroline (Fike). Adams, childrens names at base of gravestone Mary, Laura, James, Emma, Nora, Harvey and Paul.
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