The sun., 1891-06-18
PRISONERS HALF sUFFoCATED.
Seven Stretched Ont In Their Cells in the
Yonkers Police Station.


Tho Yonkers police had n foversh time yes
terday morning with lot OF Illuminating ga
that was drifting around the street and follow
ing sewer pipes. Between the hours OF :15
when the gas announced its presence by blow
ing two men out OF hole In Dock street
and 9:O5. when the seven prisoners whit
we're confined in the little cells under the
Police Headquarters building we're found un.
| conscious from the effects OF 1t. the gas wnf
exceedingly active One drunk" and lone
escaped prisoner" were the incidentals that
appeared on the police blotter yesterday as due
directly to this sam, gas. 1t was by the mer-
| est accident that tho gas didn't complete Its
work By killing all Of the .evon prisoners and
tho two men who wore In the trench whom II
! exploded. All OF It's victims, however. had re-
covered Yesterday afternoon except jeremiah
Malone. who is In St. Joseph's suffering from
severe burns about the head and neck, but the
physicians at the hospital think thnt he will
recover.
The trouble began in this way: At o'clock
yesterday morning a gang Of men were maxi
ing sewor connections In Dock street with AL
derman John Schlobohm's hotel. which Is on
posite the Pollco Headquarters building.
narrow. deep trench had been sunk to the
sewer pipe. and in sinking It tho men had ex-
posed the gas main. Daniel Cunningham and
Thomas eany. the foreman OF tho gang.
were standing in the street beside the
trench pulling up by n rope largo boulder
Mike Quinlivan and jeremiah Malone were 10
rock REACHED the level OF the street the ropse
broke. 1t fell on tho gas main, @ brc3king IL
into into the @ air. - The escaping gas had been is
s4cI eral rolieemeS ran out Of the station.
Mns Ma ana Of Se rsne we1f F
nearly thrown them into the street TheL:
clothes We're on re ~ and hsr fa,es were 4 hs.n had
NnSe ,area Dir, r0 VAS s"ovIlsd into the hole and
'Is SuIerintendnns 'I" Stale OF the gas com panv
shut the gas out OF the main that had been
ssn S SSnds RhSmss 9an Msnny back
bratel Ills escane by getting very drunk and
osoes the n s Vas se N
somo q ,hs nTisonors n ths ;.ii bad hsa beSn Eel,
ssksp as S" TSere
smell oi ras in The station house after
% %. ha had been been psa e ess sTs
nre below the street level and we're all oc.u-
mod A. 95 boy xho was .akihS a, Ing
prisoners. snw him fail 10 the floor; A moment
later ,wo other who nad been stana Ha.d
of os 'sspa Ssp hs5Sa anu oo os
the desk. aid he could hardly beiiSyss
The prisoners. as he had been in the
s ter minutes before and hey seemed nrIaeI
in respon 90 t. the boys cry. however, he found
that the was Ss 80 Sn Mn n Eas
The sey On prl-oners who had been confined
there were now all lying nnG1nsci9Mns: three o:
cells. HsiO was summoned. and they werc all
.arred ont OF the prison and stretched ont on
the street Dr.. Swift. the police surgeon. and
DR.. Warren were summoned. Tho alr revived
The news OF the accident had rread. md a
crowd collected about tho rriso, err. while
IN. doctors were working over tho prisoners
Marshal McGraih brought from court Patrick
O'Brien. who hal been Iemanded f"r rrtxami;
was filed with gas. and the polire told him to
take O'Brlen over to the Court House @ lnWn.
whe o the other prisoners were /" the excife-
ment about the seven mon who were Inst re.
covering from the effects OF the gas. O'Brinn
sauntered of without attracting potice. he
waB not recRptuIeu.