ESCAPE FROM DEATH
TWO MEN IN BACH OVERCOME BY GAS FUMES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON. Thursday Sleeping all night in a two-roomed bach, which, unknown to them, was slowly being filled with gas fumes, an elderly man, Mr. Peter Ward, and a companion, Mr. Kobert Wilson, narrowly escaped suffocation last night. Messrs. Ward and Wilson were sitting in the front room of a bach at Lyall Bay last night in close proximity to a tap connected with a gas ring. One of them must have inadvertently knocked the tap and partly turned on the gas. Both men retired without noticing anything wrong. Mr. W 7 ilson slept in the back room and Mr. Ward's bed was in the front one, fairly near to the gas ring. Through the night the bach filled with fumes. Fortunately the front door was left open and probably it was due to this that the men are still alive.
Mr. Wilson rose early this morning and on reaching the open air collapsed. A passer-by, Traffic Inspector Cook, summoned an ambulance. Pending its arrival he applied artificial respiration to Mr. Ward. It was three-quarters of an hour before the latter showed any sign of life, and it was not until tonight that he regained consciousness. Mr. Wilson soon recovered from the effect of .the fumes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21857, 20 July 1934, Page 10
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