Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-13 | Page 3 | Workman Drowns in Deep Cesspool

Workman Drowns in Deep Cesspool Is Hauled Up to Within Two Feet of Surface, but Faints and Falls. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. June 12 -Overcome by r-ewer gas while nt work in ft cesspool, William He-nsev . a sewer con-liacteir. con-liacteir. was hauled to -within two feet of the surface, but before any on could reach him his hold upon the rop was loot and he fell back Into a pit forty fert ile-.-p ,nnd was lrownea His body has not been recovered. Called for Help. Ifensey was 24 years of age and resided at Vermont and Melrose ncnues. He was working on the property of R. R Chlsholm, 126 Arapahoe street He had drilled n hoi" twenty feet below the 'surface 'sur-face Into a sewer to. connect It with the Cesspool and w-hen the hole was completed complet-ed a great volume of sewerage nnd oil rushed from (he sewer into the hole Feeling himself growing faint. Hensey e ailed to be hauled to the surface but i In gas overcame him before he reached the top. He Paves n wife and one child.