Evening star., 1928-12-21
DESPERATE BATTLE
FAILS TO SAVE TWO
POISONED ON TRUCK
Rescue Squads Work 20
Hours Over Men Overcome
by Gas Fumes.
BELIEVED INTOXICATED
WHEN FOUND IN MACHINE
Taken to Jail Before Going to
Hospital-Blood Given Vic
Tins by Students.

Twenty hours of continuous effort by
members of the Fire Department rescue
squad, physicians of Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital and medical students
there, failed to save the lives of two
men who were overcome by monoxide
gas in the closed cab of motor truck
near Falls Church, Va, yesterday.
Lester A. Linaburg died shortly after
o'clock this morning after the entire
staff of the hospital and the firemen
had labored since 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon to revive the spark of life he
still retained when DR.. E. S. Waring of
Fairfax Court House, examined him In
the Falls Church Jail yesterday after
noon, where the two men had been
taken by Town Sergt. w. L. Mitchell Of
Falls Church, who at first believed they
we're intoxicated.
Boyd L. Cassort, Linaburg's COM
panion, died at II o'clock this morning.
Both men lived in Winchester, Va.
Coroner hewitt issued certificate of
accidental death
Both Justice of the Peace j. T. Mol
ing and Mitchell believed the men to
be suffering from intoxication, but called
DR.. Waring, who Immediately ordered
/, them rushed to Georgetown Hospital.
During sinking spell last night blood
given by two medical students was in
jected into the veins of the patients,
out without satisfactory effects.
Work Through Night.
and three nurses worked through the
dnPf0rc Pd
Donald Corridan, Samuel Ressoff, Will
liam Shea and Julian Hazen. Miss Ju-
liza Gresco, Miss Anne Oprey and Miss
Helen Sneak, nurses, assisted them
Justice Moling explained today that
seeing both men unconscious in the rear
of Mitchell's car, he assumed that they
were intoxicated and would need medi-
cal attention. He instructed Mitchell to
summon doctor upon reaching the jail.
He did not intend that the men be
committed to jail, Justice Moling de-
clared, but merely sent them there as
the most convenient place for them to
receive medical attention DR.. Waring
arrived about half an hour after they
reached the jail.
For time last night it was thought
that the lives of both men would be
saved, but about o'clock this morning
the breathing of Linaburg began COM
ing in irregular gaSps, despite the almost
constant administration of oxygen, and
few minutes before 4 o'clock he died.
Rally After TRANSMISSION.
The patients rallied following the
blood TRANSMISSION, but the effect Of the
new blood was brief. This morning
Cassort'S breath was coming in painful
gasps and his condition was deemed
critical.
|. Last night students of the Georgetown
Medical School we're informed of the
fight with death and more than 20
gathered around the bedside watching
the physicians and firernen work.
After a consultation of physicians,
volunteers we're called for to give their
blood. Practically every student in the
room volunteered Blood tests were
made and John M. Farington, % years
old, and George Schmidt. "a years old.
were selected A pint of blood was
drained from the veins of each.
The patients Immediately gained
strength but quickly sank again. 1t
was explained that the carbon mon
oxide gas attacks the red corpuscles
of the blood until they are exhausted.
The family of Cassort arrived in
Washington this morning, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Linaburg. wife of the man
who died, is en- route to this city. Mrs.
Millie Cassort, Cassort's wife, was in
dignant this morning. The mans
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