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Show LEGION MEN ON HERO LIST David O'Leary and W. W. Colton of Pasadana Post Rescue Victims of Explosion. There came a deafening roar, and out of the building gashed the strsng odor of ammcma gases. David J. O'Leary, a d J u -tant, and W. W. Colton, of the Pasadena, C a 1 . , Post No. 13, American Legion, peered through the dark toward the post club-rooms. club-rooms. "My God," O'Leary cried. "The boy scouts are holding a meeting up there. And the caretakers must be In there, too." The men ran Into the building, fought their way through the deadly ammonia fumes, one in search of the caretakers, the other upstairs to the clubrooms, where the Pasadena boy scouts were holding their meeting. But the boy scouts, acting with the steadiness of nerve and calm discipline that are the result of their training, already were marching out of the building and carrying, four of them detailed for the work, a crippled boy scout who had been overcome. They had even remembered to pull a pillowcase pillow-case over the stricken boy's head, and they carried him out to safety and revived him. Colton and O'Leary, staggering, groping their way, searched for and found mrs. luauue Fishburn and Mrs. A. Hare, the caretakers, who had been sleeping in their quarters in the building. They carried both women to safety. First aid treatment treat-ment revived them. The two Legionnaires also were resuscitated. The post's clubrooms are over an Ice plant, and It was an ammonia tank In the plant which exploded. It was declared de-clared that If it had not been for the bravery of O'Leary and Colton the two women would have met death. |