A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1495, 1 March 1887, Page 3

A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

A recent accident at Perkasie, Pa, tunnel shows the Importance of venlilatioD, The above tnnnol is abont half a mile long. Eepairs era being made thereia. On the third Inat. some fifty men were at work near the centre of the tunnel when n freight engine, unable to draw its traiu through the tunnel, became 'stalled' near the place where the men were at work. Fresh coal was put In the locomotive furnace, and the fan blast set m motion. Soon the train started, when it acted ai a piston In a cylinder, driving the gasea from the farnaoe before it ; and when the gasea strnok the moa who were working m the tunnel, they nearly all fell as If dead. With no premonition, about forty of them became almost instantly un conscious, and fell as they stood. One <>f the men, only partially effected, made bia way to the tunnel entrance and gave the alarm. A gravel train, with flit oars happened to be standing there. It was run into the place of the accident, and iha bodies of the fallen men were dragged upon (he oars and taken out to the fresh air. All were supposed to be dead, but, to the surprise of the resoarers, tho re- 1 oenily dead men soon began to show signs of life, and m a shott time all were themselves again, except one poor fel'ow who died, and who, m his fall, sank into a pool of water, and probably was drowned. One of the unconsolous men was found hanging on a ladder, head downwards^ suspended by his feet.--Solentifio Amerioan.