Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-05-11 | Page 3 | Rescuers Dig 38 Feet, but Find Baby Dead in Well

Rescuers Dig 38 Feet but buti find Baby Dead in Well I i DE BENTON TON HARBOR Mich 1 May 11 AP Atter AP-Atter After After digging down don thir thir- ty-eight ty feet fed volunteer workers late last night took from a l well weli on n farm tarm arm ne near r here the body of ot the 14 old months son eon of ot Mr Ir and Mrs frs I Carter More ore than 00 workers work work- u work ork- workers ers from the vicinity spurred on b by bythe bythe the possibility that ho tho child might still bo be Vot worked alive for more mere than twelve h hours t te to reach the baby After efforts effort to o revive revl the tho Infant with a prove proved pro 1 unavailing unavailing- Dr V W. T T. Bertrand Bert rand pronoun pronounced ed him dead He Ile said death de-ath was caused by suffocation and not iy Ly the fall tan bearing out the theory on op which rescue rescue res res- cue work was started that if It the child chUd could be bo reached in time it might be taken out alive alUe No 0 o bruises were found on op the bod body wren when It was taken from the well voll The child was missed shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning anc and shortly afterward It was was was' ascertained that he ho had fallen in the well The I shaft leading to the tho water was waa so co 0 narrow that It was believed the child had slipped gradually rather than n fallen into the tho well wen Rescuers located oca ted the body where it had lodged about four tour feet teet above e the water The child was so tightly wedged against the tho wall of the shaft shift that It was impossible im tm- tm possible to bring him up with grappling grappling grap grap- pling hooks fastened in his clothIng cloth cloth- tag Ing ng Efforts were first made to sink a shaft wide enough for tor n a nan man to go gt go I r down but the sand and caved in constantly constantly constantly con con- and rescuers were forced t to I abandon this method Grading shovels ela and road scrapers were brought and an Inverted cone cone- shaped bole hole with its point where th the child lay and about sey seventy five the nt five feet ee In diameter at the top was du dug In Cave again hampered the workers work work- ers era tons of loose sand falling several sev sev- several eral ral times during Ute the a operations am and d delaying the workers In one o ot of these thelle Robert Hobert one of ot th the workers was burled buried and taken ou out unconscious He lie was revived an and found to be but slightly injured When darkness threatened to put puta pu pua a stop to the work an improvised improvise electric lighting system was placed place about the well so the tho diggers could coul continue their work The childs child's father tather worked w with the rescue crow crew refusing to stop slop for tor rest until h he fell tell from exhaustion Other workers work work- era ers were organized Into shifts o ot of about relieving relle each other hourI hourly