ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

70FT FALL INTO WELL. Falling 70 feet down a well he was digging at Huinga, near Stratford, yesterday, J. J. Scbeuber suffered a fractured left leg, injury to an eye, and severe shock. His condition was reported by the Stratford Hospital last night to be serious. Scbeuber was about to descend the well on a rope operated by a windlass. His head had not disappeared _ below the ground level when the windlass broke and he crashed the full 70ft to the bottom of the shaft. Help was immediately forthcoming, but the first attempt to raise him to the surface by the attachment of straps to the rope was unsuccessful. Further help was summoned, but it was'not till an hour after his fall that the injured man, suffering intense agony in the shallow water in the well, was brought to the ground level and hurried to hospital. YOUTH’S SUDDEN DEATH, A youth named Gordon Harneiss Bradshaw, aged 17, whose parents live in Dunedin, was found in a dying condition on Sunday evening (reports an Invercargill message). He was employed as a farm labourer for R. W. Williams, of Awarua Plains, and was heard groaning in his room. A doctor was summoned, but before he arrived the youth had died.