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Show I( WELL CAVES IN ON DIGGER. t Was Burled For Twenty-Four Hours, But Suffers Little Injury. ! South Omaho, Nob. After being ' Imprisoned at tho bottom of a forty- foot well, covered with tons of earth, for twenty-four hours and receiving his air Bupply through an iron woll pipe, Herman Frankholdt, a well dig- Igcr, was dug out and found uninjured. unin-jured. Frankholdt was digging a well near South Omaha Monday morning. ' Monday night ho failed to return I home. Tuesday a search was made ' for him. Tho well whore ho had been .working had caved in. Taps wero beard on tho gasplpo iron laddor 1 which he had been using and a con- J vorsatlon was hold through tho hollow t tube. Frankholdt was protected when ' tho cavo-ln occurrod by tho Iron lad- t dor through which a supply of fresh air reached him. He kopt up a con-tlnunl con-tlnunl tapping on the ladder, hoping somo ono would hear him. After eight hours' digging tho man was relcasod. |