Suffocated

A very melancholy accident happened to a poor family at Horncastle, in Lincolnshire, by burning charcoal in an iron pot to dry a new plastered chamber, in which lay a man and his wife, and three children. The wife being taken ill in the night, the husband got up to call some neighbours to her assistance: two women came directly, who with the man, his wife, and the three children, were all suffocated by the fumes. A caution this against sleeping in rooms with burning charcoal.