Show u A CORRECT REPORT OF THE ACCIDENT AC-CIDENT Wm 0 Creer had I a well dug some six or seven years ago about 100 feet deep and was walled up about twenty feet A pump was on time well with a pipe running the full depth of the well Three or four years ago one of his horses fell In lodging about two thirds of the distance down and could not be gotten out They commenced to fill up the well by putting in rotten straw and manure and dirt until It remained forty feet deep About ten days before the accident of last week Charles Hanks and Delbert Bowers employes of Win O Creer commenced com-menced taking out the pipe The Dowers Dow-ers boy went down and sawed the pipe off at the bottom no foul air being in the well at that time Thn afternoon nnn of the accident Mr Hank and Mr Bowers concluded to try nnd take out the valve which was In the pipe below be-low Hanks let the Dowers boy down by a rope A horse attached to the end of the rope When Mr Hanks thought he was to the bottom he asked him if ho was alright and Del answered an-swered What He repeated and no answer came He run to the edge of tho well and called but no answer Del was sitting with hs back against the wall and his head trouped ThinkIng Think-ing he had fainted and no help there ho went about a third of a mile where Ralph Creer was to work getting out poles They both returned on the same horse and when they got to the top of the well Ralph looked down and see big the boy Hanks said to Ralph Ill pull up the rope tie It around and let you down Ralph answered I dont like to go down You go My nerves are all unstrung I cant go Ralph gave no reply but threw off his hat grabbed the rope and slid to the hot torn took hold of the boys head and said Dell Dell what Is the matter But no answer Ralph raised both hands oven with his shoulders never looking up and plunged forward on his face It was nn hour before Mr Hunla nnl1 n 0 u more help The theory of how tho gas accumulated is that while working at it ton days before they put an at tachment to the pipe below with a double purchase thinking to raise the pipe but only raised It n few Inches on The foul air must have been between where the horse was and the water that giving the foul air a chance U escape up the side of the pipe It was a miracle that there was not five or six more for as fast as they come they wanted to go down One neigh her coming along said It was black damp The boys were m the well some three hours |