Show I WEll ELL IS ALMOST TOMB FOR A MAN MANLee Lee Stewart Buried Beneath Ton of Rock and Dirt Buried Burled for three hours beneath eight feet of rock and dirt and escaping with only a few slight cuts and bruises was the experience of Lee Stewart yesterday esterday afternoon How lie he escaped with his life is a mystery for there was fully a ton of rock fell fell upon the young man Stewart who ho lives on East and Eleventh South accompanied by a friend Harry Newcomb of Sugar SugarHouse SugarHouse House yesterday esterday afternoon went to inspect ilU a well at the corner of Ninth East and Fourteenth South S uth which had gone dry The well was dug about a year ago and at that time the sides were walled with heavy hoo boulders Stewart by means of a ladder went to the bottom of the well a distance of twenty feet In Itt going down the shaft several rocks near the top became loosened and no sooner loner S had Stewart reached the bottom bottoni than the rocks and dirt from the sides side of the well caved in completely burying him himA bout About A eight feet of the walled sides of the well gave way so quickly that Stewart was unable to escape New Newcomb Newcomb comb immediately spread an alarm throughout the neighborhood and also summoned Dr Charles Stewart of Su Sugar Sugar Sugar gar House For nearly three hours Newcomb worked in the bottom of the shaft loading buckets with the rocks and dirt that held his friend a prisoner be beneath beI beneath neath Finally Finall Stewarts head was un uncovered uncovered I covered but he lie could not be removed from the well until almost all the rocks j I had been taken out He was unconscious 1 I scions when removed but was soon re rei revived i He was uninjured other than a afew afew 1 few cuts and bruises on his body His right ankle was sprained but no bones bonea were broken i How Stewart escaped without being killed is a mystery said Dr Stewart I have Ibave seen many disasters di asters and acci accidents accidents accidents dents and before Stewarts rescue yes yesterday yesterday yesterday I fully believed that he was dead as I did not see how a man could live under such a pile of rock There was also every ever belief bene that the large boulders had struck him on the head hend crushing his skull but luckily such was not the case ease |