{"newspaper_name": "The Columbian fountain.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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SEVERAL PERSONS have lost their lives by
bathing in the rive. by the Pittsburgh Gas
Works. The Chronicle Of that city learns from
the engineer OF the Gas Works, that there is
constantly issuing from the bottom OF the river
in front of the building containing the Receiver,
a highly noxiouS gas, composed in part OF am
monia. When the river is disturbed it rises to
the top in bubbles which burst, depositing on
the surface of the water an oily substance,
which floats off glistning with primsalic colors.
Should swimmer while his head is under wa
ter, inhae one of those bubbles i, instantly pro-
duces asphyxia, and unless the sufferer is i'm
nedaely relieved he sinks to rise no more. 1t
is singular fact that in almost every case OF
drowning at this point, the sufferers have not
risen 10 the surface after first sinking. The
other day small alligator, such as are found
in our rivers, breathed some of this gas, and
after floundering on to the shore with his
mouth open died Of the effect.