HOSPITAL DISASTER
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
MOST DEADLY GAS
(United Press, Association—By Electric Te'egraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 18
News from Cleveland states the victims of the hospital explosion wore buried to-day, which was observed by the city’s population as a day of mourning.
One more person .succumbed and two more became ill as a result of breathing the poison gas.
The building Commissioner, Guinn, is among those stricken. Ho had penetrated the film storage room to examine vestiges of burned film and now is suffering from traces of gas. It is interesting to note that several journalists who penetrated the building to obtain details of the disaster have been affected, though entry was made hours after the explosion. Rockwood stated enough gas was generated by 25,000 burning films to kill four million people. '
Major-General Gilchrist (chief of chemical warfare* service in United States) declared although it is unknown what the combination of gases was, it evidently was . more deadly than anything used in the world wai. He added: "I reallv believe people who died here must he regarded as sacrifices to experience rather than victims of negligence.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 5
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