CAS IN A WELL.
SIX PERSONS KILLED. LONDON, June 10. The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent says that while a party of thirty was dining in the garden of a country restaurant on the Via Aventino, a boy in play stepped on some boards covering a well that had been sunk in connection with drainage work. The board collapsed and the boy fell in. Another boy descended by a ladder, but did not return. Four other persons then tried to descend successively but each reeled and disappeared. Three others attempted a rescue while enrabinieri and firemen were being summoned, but the well was half filled with noxious gases, and as each inhaled them he became unconscious. Finally, a fireman brought out six dead and three still bieathing. The latter are expected to recover.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1039, 11 June 1924, Page 5
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