Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — Polson Gas Born by Accident. [ARTICLE]

Polson Gas Born by Accident.

Some yean ago a disastrous fire followed a chemical explosion at Greishelm, near Frenkfort-on-the-Maln. in Germany. Fire engines mme rushing up, but as they approached the men wore seen to fall from their seats. Spectators running after them dropped as if shot, and meanwhile the blase increased, involving fresh buildings, and even crossing the river into the village of Schwanheim. What had happened was this: The sudden mixture of vats of different chemicals under intense heat bad filled the air with a gas of so terribly poisonous a nature that these who came within its deadly influence were suffocated at once. Fiftyeve dead, and three times that number inlured, was the result of that terrible fire. This accident led to the use of poison gas in warfare.