TWO MEN GASSED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 6

TWO MEN GASSED

Chlorine Escapes From Cylinder

EFFECTS NOT SERIOUS (By Telegraph—J’ress Assoeiatiou.) GLIRISTOHUROH, February 18.

The occupants of Chancery Chambers, in O'Connell Street, were startled from their work at .10.30 this morning by a cry "Gel out of the buildinggas!" As they wonderingly olteyed, the unmistakable odour of chlorine assailed them.

What bad happened was that, tlte tap of a cylinder of chlorine stored in the laboratory ou the top tloor had jammed when it. was opened, and the lalioratory assistants, surrounded by clouds of highly poisonous gas. had been unable to close it. Taking the only safe course, they warned all the tenants of the building to get outside till the gas had blown away. Two men inhaled enough of the gas to necessitate their removal to hospital by an ambulance and a number of other persons in the building received enough to make them cough and splutter. Those taken to hospital were John Hayes, aged 2-1, an employee of Candy Fillers Ltd., in whose laboratory the cylinder was stored, and J. Buuliy. It was stated at noon that neither man was in a serious condition. The tap of Hie cylinder was eventually turned off by a man wearing a gas mask, and at 11.39, after liremen had pronounced it safe to enter Die building, all the tenants returned to their offices.