SUFFOCATED ON A YACHT.
DEATH OF TWO WORKMEN. As the result of lighting a brazier in the sleeping cabin of an old yacht, which was being broken up at Camusnagaul, in the bay of Loch Linnhe, opposite Fort William, two Scottish workmen lost their lives by inhaling carbon monoxide fumes. The vessel was recently disposed of by the family of Lord Morton to a firm of Glasgow shipbreakers, and among those employed on the work were Thomas J Hare and William Brunton Murray. They were in the habit of cooking their food in a hut ashoro, and usually slept in the cabin of the yacht. On the night of tho tragedy, the weather -being rather cold, with some snow, it was agreed that they should take the brazier from the hut to the boat. After lighting it they closed up all tho windows and ventilation openings, retiring shortly afterward to their bunks.
Another workman, who slept ashore, arrived about seven o'clock in the morn ing. and found the door tightly closed. On opening it he was met with a cloud of noxious fumes, and on entering he found the two men dead. A medical examination showed that' death was due to suffocation, brought about by the carbon monoxide fumes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20300, 6 July 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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