
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 2, 1990                   TAG: 9007020121
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SPICER, MINN.                                LENGTH: Short

LEAKING GAS POISONS 114 AT MOTEL

Carbon monoxide fumes leaking from an exhaust pipe on a hot tub furnace swept through a motel Sunday, poisoning 114 people. None of the injuries was serious.

Some of the guests at the Cazador Inn were found passed out in their rooms by emergency technicians responding to the poisoning reports.

The 114 people, including firefighters, motel guests and employees, were treated for varying degrees of the gas poisoning at Rice Memorial Hospital in nearby Willmar, authorities said.

Some of the victims were held for as long as two hours, but all were released Sunday.

Many of the 90 guests registered at the two-story, 33-room motel were visiting for the annual Independence Day celebration in the town of 600 people about 90 miles west of Minneapolis.

Officials said the carbon monoxide may have began seeping into the motel as early as Thursday or Friday. All the motel guests and employees were taken to the hospital for examination.

- Associated Press

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