FALL DOWN WELL
MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. Falling seventy feet down a well he was digging at Huinga, near Stratford, to-day, J. J. Scheuber suffered a fractured left leg, injury to an eye and severe shock. His condition was reported by the Stratford Hospital tonight to be serious. Scheuber was about to descend the well on a rope operated by a windlass. His head had not disappeared below ground level when the windlass broke, and Scheuber crashed the full seventy feet to the bottom of the shaft. Help was immediately forthcoming, but the first attempt to raise Scheuber to the surface by an
attachment of straps to a rope was without success. 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 ground level and hurried to hospital. — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 June 1936, Page 3
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