The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-07

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 -Inhaiation of Gas Was tho Cause of
 Denth h-searchers Ignitcd the Escaped | Gas and Were Injured by the ExpIo- sion Which Followed.
 Louis Resnik, man forty years of age, who lived with his family in the
 Mcintyre block on Grande avenue and kept a small grocery and notion store at the corner of Pine and Atwater
 streets, committed suicide in the cellar
 of his store some time yesterday after
 noon by inhaling Illuminating gas.
 Mir. Resnik had been In Respondent
 mood for several days due, it is said.
 to i'll health, and had been heard to say
 that he contemplated suicide. Yester-
 day mornig he left home early, about
 6 o'clock, saying that he was going to
 the store. He did not return for din ner as usual and his wife became wor- ried. When he did not return for sup per his wife became greatly alarmed and sent word to MT. Resnik's brother Jacob. The latter and his young son started out to find the missing man and went to his store at the corner of Pine and Atwater streets about 730 last evening. They found the store closed and noticed a strong odor of gas. Some of the people living in the vicinity of the store remarked that there had been a strong odor of gas since the middle pF ba off thnt1Ubt hot 1t came from leaky main.
 Jacob Resnik and his son decided to look inside the store and taking can dld4they went to an utside cellar door thtxking to enter the building in that wa Holding the lighted candle MT. Resnik raised the cellar door and as he did so an explosion occurred, hurl 1 ing him and his son backward some distance upon the sidewalk. The eel | lar way was at once enveloped in flame | and a fire alarm was rung from box S2 | at the corner of Clinton avenue and | Pine street.
 When the firemen arrived they quick ly turned a hose into the cellar and ex- the flames. In groping about the cellar they found lying on a
  the missing Louis Resnik. He was dead and near his right hand lay the end of a rope, the other end of which was attached to the gas pipe in the cellar just where the pipe entered the meter The end of the pipe had been pulled out of the meter and the gas was escaping full blast into the cellar.
 It is thought that the unfortunate man had selected the pile of hay to end his life upon and then attached the rope to the gas pipe. Then lying down he pulled the pipe free from the meter and remained on his pallet of straw until the gas had accomplished his purpose. Medical Examiner Bart ett was called and upon examination decided that life had been extinct sev- ,ral hours He was of the opinion that t was clearly a case of suicide. His wife was completely prostrated when he terrible news was broken to her last night Besides his wife MT. Resnik caves one small child.
 The brother from whose candle the yas in the cellar way became ignited vas considerably burned by the explo- , ion. He received a bad cut under the hin and was burned about the head md face. His young son was also considerably burned, his hair and eye ,rows being almost entirely burned off I while his face was badly burned. Their l injuries are not considered serious how S yer. The fire was extinguished by the fire ' nen before any damage of consequence | ro 5nro tn tha bTjl1inp
 Another Locisjaw Victim.
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