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MAN’S 24-HOUR ORDEAL

Trapped In Deep Cistern (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) HOLLY SPRINGS (Mississippi), December 14. Rescue workers today won a night-long battle in freezing weather to save a negro from a cistern cave-in. The man, Mr Harry Miller, was kept alive during the rescue operation by oxygen fed to him through a rubber tube. Workers, after a long night of scrambling in treacherous sand got a rope around Miller today and pulled him to safety. The 44-year-old tenant farmer had spent nearly 24 hours at the bottom of a 26-foot deep cistern, trapped in wet red sand up to baa chin.

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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 10

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MAN’S 24-HOUR ORDEAL Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 10

MAN’S 24-HOUR ORDEAL Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 10