Suffocating damp

The following melancholy accident lately happened at a lime kiln in Dublin. The kiln not having fire in it for some time, produced a suffocating damp; and a man going to give it vent, was immediately struck dead: another man seeing him fall, and not knowing the consequence, went down to his assistance, and unfortunately shared the same fate; and three others, who happened to be by, endeavouring to save them, were all suffocated. A poor woman, wife to the last man that went down, over-reaching herself to the assistance of her husband, was so much overcome, that had she not been immediately brought into the air, and got proper remedies, she would likewise have perished.