Headline Effect

Some headlines make you cringe. This one gave me a shutter. A whole group of people died from methane.

5 die in dairy farm manure pit ... Authorities said Showalter entered a manure pit to unclog a pipe Monday evening and was quickly overcome by the methane. Stoltzfus, apparently believing Showalter had a heart attack, went in after him and also passed out. Another farm worker alerted Showalter's wife, who rushed to the pit followed by Shayla and Christina. "They all climbed into the pit to help," Sheriff Donald Farley said. The victims had no warning of the deadly gas that had built up in the pit. "You cannot smell it, you cannot see it, but it's an instant kill," said Dan Brubaker, a family friend who oversaw the construction of the pit decades earlier. CNN