The Pendigo Advertiser relates the following narrow escape from : — On Friday afternoon two men, in the employ '• of ' Messrs. Fenelon and Co., brewers, near the*new"bridge on the Loddon, Inglewood Road; got' ihto f a' r vat to clean it out, bilt w6re ; 'immediately* overpowered by gas,. which rendered tliem^iiTiTensibl-? -OiroTbserving their dangerous "''conditfito^^aY'jieMOti^deBcehded watha rope and niade "ah ineffectual at--1 i .'*'J'J'i7 Itempt to fasten. it ; round] one ; pf ±hhre r sufferers ; he repeated the effort withinore^sucdessj- hutjwas so, exhausted that he ! was "'unable -to' relieve the pother,. who at, this' tnhe '*" lay "apparently Ylifeless" atvthe. .... ■ ■ ; ■■-.-.•.. *•■ r.j-y ,~.'j,'*¥o ./*-:*j y-a n a fii:*) vn: s bottom pf>the.yat.yf]y.l^ i with great .presence: of <n__id:turned;a:tap and; letwater' into ; the £ ,'vat'Y t>y-'%*hiclr. means' 'the' gas > ascended','.£^ the other sufferer out of the poisonous atmosphere, in which he was rapidly, dying, i Medi.^aid^was called in and the usual restoratives' admmisteired, .but.it was? sOmeriiburst before ~the=meii'i'w:ere restored to consciousness, and it was not until early on Saturday morning they were-. pronouiiced ontof danger.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 4 June 1864, Page 2
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