FALL DOWN SHAFT

Grey River Argus, 16 June 1936, Page 4

FALL DOWN SHAFT

Seventy Feet Deep TARANAKI MAN’S ACCIDENT. (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH. June 15. Fulling seventy feet down a well that lie was digging at lluinga. near Stratford. to-day, J. J. s<-h<‘uh<'r suffered a. fractured left leg. an injury to an eye. and sever e shock. His condition was reported bv Stratford H< -- pital to-night. to be 'serious. Seheuber rwas about, to descend the well on a rope operated by a windlass. His head ha<l -rot disappeared below the ground level when the windlass d>roke, and Seheuber eta-lie. 1 Hie full seventy "feet to the bottom of the shaft. Helu was immediately fertheonrng. but'T'ne first attempt to raise Sell. ber to the surface l,y the attachment of straps io tlie rope was without success. Further help was .summoned, but >t was not till a a hour afiej- hi.fall that the injured man. sufi'erite;-, intense agony in shallow water in tin weU, was brought to ground level, and hurried to the hospital.