The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-07
SLAvIN
OvERCO,.lE
BY GAS.
fou11 Unconscious on III,
Floor Of His Room --PrOml.
Discovery Sav3d His Life.

There came near being another fatal
gas asphyxiation at % Elbow street this
morning.
Patrick slavin. n polisher in the employ
OF Rodenberg & Dunn. SO Clifford street.
had been out OF work for two days and
took the occasion TO indulge in a sort
OF semi-annual fling.
He told Mrs. Mitchell with whom he
was rooming. that there had been some
trouble at the shop. on account OF quick
silver fumes. presumably as a reason for
not being at work.
Yesterday noon he was observed 10 have
been drinking. and the fact was more no.
tceable at night.
He went out after supper and returned
quite late-iust what hour Mrs Mitchell
does not know, neither is she positive as
20 his condition.
AZ $50 this morning May Mitchell was
sent 10 cali slavin. and finding a strong
odor Of gas. hastily returned and told
what her suspicious were.
At first IL was though that she was
| mistaken and that 1t would be better to
allow slavin TO sleep of the effects of
his drinking. but on second thought II
was decided to awaken him.
Slavin did not respond when the door
was ratified. then pounded upon. and Mr..
Spooner. who occupies the upper tene-
ment was called upon TO break in the
door. which he did.
slavin was found on the floor. his head
! under the bed
, He was fully dressed, but the bed had
been Io.d upon.
2 he gas cock was turned wide open.
and as II operates hard, the people "a
A f0lH Inn
/ out they say that Slavins perilOus posi-
| ton, the window and door being shat
I tightly was probably due TO accident,
rather than a purpose 10 take his liie.
Slavin was pretty tar gone. but by the
| time he raa ched tie Rhode Island hospi-
| tai he had regained consciousness. which
| iact leads 10 the supposiuon that either
| he returned home very late, or else he
arose about dawn, and using the gas Tor
a few minutes, turned II out and then
! left the cock open. Tor, had the volume of
| gas which was found fiowing have had
lree vent anywhere near midnight SlaVIn
must have Deeu sufOcated.
| Inquiry al Rodcnoerg q Dunn's elicited
! he Information that S.avin was not af-
iected by the quicksilver fumes although
| story was current that Mr Dunn
orother who was in the shop Wednesday
| had lost his life in consequence OF the
| "a .ence OF the fumes.
| Mr.. Durn did die yesterday, but from
| heart disease, not bt cause Of the quick
silver fumes lie had been i'll for quite a
while.
| The firm uses quicksilver and in the
| application OF &c TO the work they are
/ turning out the silver is heated and evap-
| GRATED, the vapors being carried away by
! 100 foot pine, extending from the forge
I o a point consld rably ABOVE the roof.
| on the day ia question there was back
= draft owing to high wind, and some OF
| he vapor or fumes entered the shop and
| or a few minutes made some OF the help
| n. but IL was nothing serious and the
fleets soon passed away.
Slavin was not affected by these fumes,
/ or ne was not I'm the shop at the time,
/ 30 Il was said at the office.
/ He will recover. and his stay at the
| Rhode Island hospital will be a brief one.