Patrick McMahon, 63, laborer, died as the result of attempting to save Michael O’Loughlin, 69, laborer, from suffocation, Stoneham, Massachusetts, August 9, 1910. McMahon descended into a 12-foot sewer manhole to O’Loughlin, who had been overcome by gas. McMahon hooked a chain around O’Loughlin and started to climb out of the manhole, but he was overcome and fell to the bottom. O’Loughlin was pulled to the surface 20 minutes later by men who gathered at the scene, but he was found to be dead. McMahon was taken from the manhole a short time later. He died, without regaining consciousness, two days afterward. 8348-693
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