CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - HODGSON Newspaper Article (1911)
***********************************************************************
OHGENWEB NOTICE:  All distribution rights to this electronic data are
reserved by the submitter.  Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted
material will require the permission of the copyright owner.  The submitter
has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently
for free access.  

http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/
***********************************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Jane Hodgson 
hodgson@azstarnet.com
October 6, 1998
***********************************************************************

Cleveland Plain Dealer, 24 January 1911

Father and Sons Stricken by Gas

Archibald Hodgson
Henry Hodgson
Joseph Hodgson

Gas Claims Two in Pit of Death

Fumes From Leaking Valve Overcome Three Who Try for Lives of Victims

Father Fails in Attempt to Save and May Add to List of Dead

  Two men were killed, a third was sent to a hospital in a critical condition
and two others were overcome by gas in a valve pit at the plant of the
People's
Gas Light & Coke Co., Riverend N.W. and W. 25th St. yesterday.

  Joseph Hodgson, 54, of 2616 Franklin av. N.W., superintendent of the plant,
is in a serious condition.  Hodgson's two sons, Archibald, 24, Married, 2608
Franklin av N.W. and Henry, 21, single, who lived with his father, are dead.

  Patolman Burrows and Toll of the eighth precinct recovered after being led
away from the mouth of the pit.

  The pit in which the father and his two sons were overcome is about fifteen
feet deep and three feet in diameter and is in a shed adjoining a big gas
tank.
At the bottom is a valve that conducts gas from the tank.  This valve had been
leaking and the father sent his sons to repair it.  As Archibald lowered
himself into the pit Henry saw him stagger and fall against the side.  He
immediately went to the rescue and also was overcome.  The father found the
two
boys unconscious.  Patrolman Burrows acting sargaent, and Patrolman Toll
hurried to the scene, while the firemen of engine Co. 4, together with Saxon's
and A.R. Nunn's ambulances, were called.

  Joseph Hodgson then went into the pit, but was overcome.  Burrows and Toll
tried to effect a rescue, but felt themselves being overcome and crawled from
the pit.  The firemen used a noose and grappling hook to pull the three
unconscious men out.

  Henry was placed in Saxton's ambulance, but died before St. John's hospital
was reached.  Archibald was taken to Lutheran hospital in A.R. Nunn's
ambulance
but succombed two hours later.  The father was taken to German hospital by
Saxton's ambulance and was revived.
__________________________________________________________________________

Jane Hunter Hodgson
Tucson, Arizona
hodgson@azstarnet.com