the ceiling. Both the radiators and pipes, as well as the building's few windows, were out of the inmates' reach.
Dr. Martin Crane of the coroner's office concluded that the men had died of "heatstroke of the asphytic type" from their proximity to a large bank of radiation that had been turned on while all the windows and ventilation grills had been shut tight. The radiators, overly large by the building's actual needs, combined with an already stifling August heat wave to create a furnacelike atmosphere. Inside the cells, the temperature approached 200 degrees, just 12 degrees below boiling....
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