GASSED IN A WELL
TRAGIC RESULT OF A BOY’S FALL (Rec. June 10, 7.25 p.m.) London, June 10. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says that while a party of thirty were dining in the gardens of a country restaurant on the Via Aventino, a boy in playing, stepped on the boards covering a well sunk in connection with drainage. A board collapsed and the boy fell in. Another boy descended by a ladder, hut did not return. Four persons tried to descend successively, and each reeled and disappeared. Three others attempted a rescue while carabinieri and firemen were being summoned, but the well was half-filled with noxious gases, and as each inhaled the gas he became unconscious. Finally, the firemen brought out six dead. 1 hreo of those recovered were still breathing and are expected to re-cover.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 220, 11 June 1924, Page 9
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