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Tuscania Survivor Dies in New Haven, CT.

 

 

New Haven, 13 March 1918 - John McDaniels, age 21, of Omaha Nebraska, whom was a Seaman on the torpedoed steamer Tuscania, was found dead in his room today. He came here recently and obtained employment in a munitions factory. When he went to bed last night a gas stove was alight in his room. During the night the gas ran out and someone restored the supply through a prepayment meter, and the gas killed the sleeping man.

 

 

 

2005 INFORMATION SOURCE

Connecticut Newspaper, "Bridgeport Telegram" Thursday, 14 March 1918, Page 7.


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