Horace B. Coulter attempted to save Ernest E. Moore from suffocation, Jacksonville, Florida, June 30, 1925. Moore, 43, and others went to a large factory, which was being fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas, to ventilate it. After doors on the first floor had been opened, Moore, wearing a mask supplied with oxygen, opened windows on the second floor and reported that the gas was strong there. Another man ascended to the third floor to open windows, but he did not appear at any of them. Although he was advised not to re-enter the building, Moore ran up the stairway to the third floor. He broke a window and called out, then fell backward. When Coulter, 48, tobacco buyer, who had had experience in the use of the gas, learned what Moore had done, he ran inside and started to ascend on the elevator, which had no door. He was overcome and became unconscious as another man climbed onto the elevator and stopped it. The man reversed the elevator, and when it had descended to the first floor, others helped him take Coulter outside the building. Coulter regained consciousness and was not seriously affected. Firemen found Moore and the man he attempted to save on the third floor close to the window. Both were dead. 28188-2276
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