WINDLASS COLLAPSES
MAN FALLS DOWN WELL
' SERIOUS INJURIES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYiJpUTH, June 15, , Falling 70 feet down a well he was digging at Huinga, near Stratford, today, Mr. J. J. Scheuber received a fractured left leg, an injury to an eye, and severe shock. His condition was reported by the Stratford Hospital tonight to be seripus.
Mr. Scheuber was about a descend the„weir on a rope operated by a windHis head had not disappeared below the ground level when the windlass broke and Mr. Scheuber crashed the-full 70 feet to the bottom of the shaft.
Help was immediately forthcoming, but the first attempt to raise Mr. Scheuber to the surface by the attachment o£ straps to the rope, was without success. Further help was summoned, but it was not till an hour after his fall that the injured man, suffering' intense agony in shallow water in the well, was brought to the ground level and hurried to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 17
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