Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-02-21 | Page 3 | Mysterious Gas among Workers

MYSTERIOUS GAS AMONG WORKERS NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Almost 150 persons employed in a West Thirtieth street loft building, where army uniforms uni-forms are made, have been overcome by fumes of somo mysterious gas since noon yesterday. All efforts of health department officials and the police to trace tho gas have been unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. A quantity of khaki cloth was received re-ceived by a contractor on tho ninth floor Tuesday and almost immediately, afterward the elevator "man, who had handled it, became ill. From that time throughout the afternoon workers became be-came unconscious all over that floor and in shops on tho three stories above. They were revived and sent home. This morning the odor was again noticed and by 10 o'clock so many persons per-sons had been overcome that the plant was shut down and a call sent for tho police, who summoned doctors and ambulances. am-bulances. After first aid had heen administered adminis-tered tho victims regained consciousness. conscious-ness. The doctors, who found that the patients pa-tients complained of a queer sensation in their throats, were unable to locate tho trouble, and tho police sent for physicians from tho department of health. Investigation showed that tho casualty list was confined to the uniform uni-form shop and tho floors above. nn