ORDEAL IN WELL.
MAN FALLS SEVENTY FEET. WINDLASS ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. Through falling 70ft down a well he was digging at Huinga, near Stratford, to-day, Mr. J. J. Scheuber suffered a fracture of the left leg, injury to an eye and sever© shock. His condition was reported by the Stratford Hospital to-night to be serious. Mr. Scheuber was about to descend the well on a rope operated by a windlass and his head had not disappeared below ground level when the windlass broke, with the result that Mr. Scheuber crashed the full 70ft to the bottom of tlio shaft. Help was immediately forthcoming, but the first attempt to raise Mr. Scheuber to the surface by the attach' ment of straps to the rope was unsuccessful. Further help was summoned, but it was not until an hour after his fall that the injured man, who suffered agony in the shallow water in the well, was brought to tlie ground level and hurried io horpital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 11
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167ORDEAL IN WELL. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 11
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