DEATH FUMES IN WELL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 June 1924, Page 9

DEATH FUMES IN WELL.

Tragic End of Garden

Party.

SIX DEATHS RECORDED.

By Cab'e—Press Association—Copyright.

(Received 7.25 p.m., June 10.)

LONDON, June 10

The Rome correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that while a party of thirty was dining in the gardens of a country restaurant, on Via Aventino, a boy stepped on the boards covering a well sunk in connection with the drainage. The board collapsed and the boy telL in. Another boy descended by a ladder, but did not return. Four persons tried to descend successively. Each reeled and disappeared. Three others attempted the rescue while the carabinieri and firemen were being summoned. but the well was half filled with noxious gases, and as each inhaled ho became unconscious.

Finally the firemen brought out six dead and three still breathing. The latter are expected to recover.