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Show GAS IN VESSEL KILLS FIVE MEN Ten Others Overcome By "Deadly Fumes in San Francisco SAX FRANCISCO. Sept 16. Five num. three of them quarantine officers offic-ers and two longshoremen were asphyxiated as-phyxiated and at least ten others suffered suf-fered from cyanide gas poisoning Irl-day Irl-day in the Shiny o Maru as the vo sei rode at anchor hero today. The deadly gas used In fumigating, killed these men: Frank Gilbert, chief of the fuml-I fuml-I gating squad, department of public health. Albert E Pox. John Toohey, Gilbert's assistant. Two men believed to be B Morgan and Dennis McCarthy, stevedores. About 'en ether members of a rescue res-cue crew, including a lieutenant, a captain and three other members of tho flro department, were overcome by tho fumes. It was the first time this year that cyanide fumigation had been used in vessels In the harbor. One after another an-other the quarantine men fell In the hold. Rescuers ventured Into- gas-filled compartments without donning gas mafcks and many of them collapsed. None of those overcome Is believed' to bo In a serious condlUon |