NARROW ESCAPE OF THREE MEN.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CintISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Last night three men employed at R. Sunderland's bakery, Richmond, went to bed about nine o'clock, and left a buckot-full of coke burning in their room, which is closely boarded, and when the door and windows are shut is almost airtight. They have been in the habit of doing this for some time, but owing to there being a broken pane in the window, no serious effects had hitherto resulted. This pane has been mended, consequently last night when the coke Ore burnt up the fumes could not escape. The head baker, who went to wake them at two a.m., found them insensible. He opened the door and windows, and sent for Dr. Stewart, undor whose treatment two of them recovered, but the third, Fred Collins, is still in a very precarious state.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9134, 16 August 1888, Page 5
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