2 Men Die From Possible Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
3rd Man Survives
Posted: 5:57 pm CST November 17, 2006
Two men have been found dead in a cabin in the town of Harding in Lincoln County.A 79-year-old Merrill man and a 70-year-old Shawano man died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, and a third person was also exposed.The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said it is suspected that sometime overnight the three men were overcome by fumes from a LP gas appliance.Harding is near Merrill, north of Wausau.The survivor, 77-year-old Jerome Roush (pictured above), was flown to Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, where there's a hyperbaric chamber to treat carbon monoxide poisoning.
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