Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — Beware of the Exhaust. [ARTICLE]

Beware of the Exhaust.

The increasing number so automobile exhaust asphyxiations prompted the bureau of mines to issue a warning against operating automobile engines in small garages with doors and windows closed. “In the test conducted,” said the warning, “the air in the garage was rendered decidedly dangerous after the automobile engine had been running fifteen minutes. The gas is carbon monoxide, colorless, odorless and tasteless and is extremely poisonous. The dangerous symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning come almost without wariiing and collapse in > a garage generally proves fatal unless outside aid arrives very soon.” A chemist conducting the bureau’s tests was considerably affected by the gases.