Michael E. Walsh, 27, deckhand, attempted to save Harry J. Browne, 22, and William H. O’Donnell, 51, painters, from suffocation, Mariners Harbor, New York, June 18, 1912. Browne and O’Donnell were overcome by paint fumes in a compartment of the hold of a vessel. Access to where they lay, although their exact position in the hold was unknown, was through two other compartments, the dividing bulkheads of which contained holes only 18 inches in diameter. Walsh entered one compartment through a hatch and crawled through one bulkhead and, in darkness, over beams on the bottom of the hold to the west bulkhead. He reached through the hole and found the men, but he was affected by the fumes and was unable to pull the men through the hole. He returned to the deck, and a hole was chopped through the deck over the men. Walsh and another man were let down by means of ropes, and they tied other ropes to Browne and O’Donnell. All were pulled out, and Browne and O’Donnell were revived. 8812-780
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