New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-20
ALMOST SUFFOCATED BY GAS.
NARROW ESCAPE OF AN OREGON MAN.
FOUND IN THE HOTEL MADISON WITH AN ESCAPING
RrRNER-aKu

FOUND IN THE HOTEL MADISON WITH AN ESCAPING
BURSER-sKILFUL TREATMENT.
Let me have the best you have got In the house,
The clerk OF the Hotel Madison at West Thirty ninth
st. and Broadway looked up at the speaker who was
about six and half feet high well proportional, and
had pleasant expression. His clothes hung loosely
about his ample form. They made of good
material however, and looked IL they had been
put on for the first time. The clerk handed the man
the registry book. The stranger wrote in a large.
bold and irregular hand; &c II. Lambert, Oregon"
He was assigned to Room No. 81 the first foor II
ia large and oyerooks Thirty -ninthst. having
two windows. Mr. Lambert went at once 10 his room,
and from the awkward manner in which he handled
his large body and the nquisitiye way In which he
looked At everything. be was thought TO have como
from some inland place where hotels are only known
by iaith
This was on Wednesday afternoon about A o'clock
and but little attention was paid to Mr. Lamberts
movements afterward by the hotel people. He 10
known to have found the bar in the hotel about 8
O'clock and TO have sampled some whskey, which
seemed to snit his taste and led to another sample
He was not In laxative mood and walked around
the hotel and out into Broadway in ssless ma ner,
as if undetermined which way TO 90 or what 70 90.
He spoke of the guests after dinner ABOUT co
the West, and from the familiar manner IN WHICH
be handled the subject it thought that he was
connected in some way with the big ranches 10 oregon
About o'clock he disappeared from the hotel wien
he left his abont hour earlier. the gas " -
burning The chambermaid saw the DSht burning
brightly until II O'Clock, when she went oil duty:
When Mr. Lambert returned to his room Il NOS
known but il is supposed have been about o clock
Yesterday morning. There was noise heard IN the
room about this time and the light in the room was
ont. A few minutes after yesterday Kate Nat
thews a chambermaid. when passing Room No. Il
detected the odor of gas. She looked at the gax
burners in the alway They all right and then
she went from to room. until she came to No. Il
again. The door was closed, and when she tried to
open it with her key it seemed TO be fastened on the
inside She gave ALARM and Robert Loader,
porter forced the door OPEN 10 had not been licked
at all but had eau gbt last in tie jamb. lie over
powered by the gas in the and fell TO the foor
The cham oernaid called Patrick Cavanagh. the day
clerk When Ire got 10 the ROOM portion OF the gas
had escaped and alter pulling out the porter he thew
open the window. From single bracket burner. tho
gas was coming ont In full force lie turned 4 on:
and then went To Mr.. Lambert. His body was lying
the door. and his head was resting IN a crampd
position against the side CT the bed His face was
CHASTITY and when the fresh air reached his lungs he
Casped for breath and groaned heavily. The clerk
tried to hin but could not. William l. kitseii,
the proprietor. hurried to the room and assisted the
clerk in raising the unconscious 10 the bed. ms
inger had turned black, and he seemed to DC rapidly
DR.. 4. Burchard. of No 3j5 West Thirteth-st was
summoned and later Dr. MaOney. of West Forty:
second-st was called in. The doctors gave Mr. kitSell
encouragement and thought that Mr.. Lambert would
come out of the coma N little while. But MT Lam
bert did get better and at 8 p. M. an ambulance
was sent from the New-York Hospital whittier tho
unconscious man was taken. Stmuants were admin
istered Alphabetically. and oxygen was gwen to
him 10 breath. There coal gas the patients
breath Faithful treatment i'll this manner for SIX
hours brought about change for the better and at
IL o'clock last night 1t thought that the CT ahces
were i'll favor OF recovery.
When Mr. Lambert searched belt containing
$40 in gold was found strapped around bis waist.
He had sos IN coin in his pockets. bunch OF Keys
and a large silver watch There was nothing to moi
cate what part of Oregon he from. Mr.. Lambert
went to bed with his collar on and portion oil ms
clothing and il is the opinion OF Mr. Kitscll that ne
blew out the gas.