James J. Keating, 29, electrician, helped to save Peter Sullivan, 32, laborer, and two other men, and assisted in an attempt to save 21 others from suffocation, Cleveland, Ohio, July 25, 1916. (See case of WILLIAM J. DOLAN.) After Dolan had rescued Johnston, a party of 10 men went to the lock, and seven or eight of them proceeded into the tunnel. All 10 men were overcome, three of them in the lock, and the others between the lock and the point where the Johnston party had fallen. There was then so much gas in the shaft that persons who leaned over it were made sick and dizzy. Keating came to the shaft with a companion, and they and a workman at the shaft descended. They broke a window in the door of the lock, enabling them to open the door, and brought Sullivan and the bodies of two men to the surface. All three of the rescuers were sick and had headaches, but Keating and his companion went to the lock again and opened some valves in order to open the inside door of the lock. Later Keating and a city fireman donned oxygen helmets, went to the lock, and opened more valves to reduce the air pressure in the tunnel. Keating’s companion had descended with them without a helmet and remained at the shaft, and the other two found him unconscious when they returned to the shaft. They took him to the surface, where he was revived. Keating and the fireman again descended, and Keating broke a window in the lock, thus opening the door and releasing two men who had recovered consciousness and reached the lock. Keating was not seriously affected. 16917-1267
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