This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monnett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2VB.2ACE/502.3 Message Board Post: "319 DIE IN PRISON FIRE - Prisoners are Trapped in Cells Like Caged Animals" "Columbus, O. April 22 -- Three hundred and eleven convicts perished last night when fire, appalling and terrible, transformed the west cell block of the State Penitentiary here into a roaring inferno." A list of those who die appear in this newspaper. "Emerson Monnett, Fairfield Co." is among those listed. Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, April 22, 1930