TWO MEN POISONED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13162, 27 April 1906, Page 5

TWO MEN POISONED.

SAID TO HAVE INHALED POISONOUS FUMES. CONDITION OF ONE HOPELESS". [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Dr/NKDis, Thursday. Archibald McKay and John Gilmour Anderson, employed at the Milburn lime and cement works, are at present in a critical condition, the result, it is believed, of inhaling poisonous acid fumes. They v.ere engaged on Tuesday in removing zinc from galvanised wire by dipping it in a casV of hydrochloric or muriatic acid, and it is thought that the fumes of the acid, which has an extremely poisonous action, got into the men's system through breathing. They became very ill on leaving off work, and medical aid was called in, bur. up to the present neither of them has rallied to any extent. To-day the. dying depositions of Anderson, who is a. single man, and a brother to the drainage board's, engineer, were taken. He was removed to the hospital McKay, who is a married man with a family, was: found to be too weak to make any statement, and the doctor, who saw him to-night, considers his case hopeless.