FALL DOWN A WELL
BOY TREADS ON BROKEN BOARD.
SIX RESCUERS BROUGHT UP DEAD AND THREE BREATHING
United Press Association—Copyright. (Received June 10, 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. Tho “Daily Telegraph’s” Romo correspondent says that while a party of thirty were dining in the gardens of a country restaurant on the Via Aventino. a boy while playing stepped on the boards covering a well sunk in connection with drainage. The hoard collapsed and the hoy fell in. Another hoy descended by a ladder. but did not return.
Four persons tried to descend successively but 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 person inhaled he became unconscious.
Finally the firemen brought out six dead and three who were still breathing. It is expected they will recover —A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9728, 11 June 1924, Page 5
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