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Show MEETS DEATH IN EFFORT TO SAVE Cohoes. X. Y.. Oct. 2S. Realizing that he was taking the greatest risk F. S. Miller today gave up"hTr. life in a futile attempt 'to gave Hugh Murphy, a fellow workman, whose home is In Cincinnati. Miller is an expert builder build-er of gas tankH and was bi ought here to repair the largest gas tank In the city. Murphy hulped Miller at tho vork and when It was finished Miller climbed up a long ladder to the top of the tank. Scarcely had he reached there when Murphy, who had been on a lower rung of ihe ladder, succumbed to the suffocating suffo-cating fumes of gas and fell in ten feet of water In the bottom of the tank. Without an Instant's hesitation Miller, seizing a rope, ran down tho ladder Ho tied the rope around the unconscious Murphy's body Two men at the lop of the tank were hauling him up whon Murphy partly rcgulned consciousness and, struggling, slipped from the rope. In his fall he knocked Miller from the ladder, but Miller did not cease his heroic effort to save him. As thev struggled In tho fotltl water Murphj solzcd Miller with a death grasp. They sank and both wero drowned. |