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Two Men Killed In A Well

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
December
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Two fmen were asphyxiated near Saline, Wednesday afternoon, while enaged in bricking up a well. The wel! was on the farm of William Clougb, ne mile west of Saline village. It was ixty flve feet deep and had been jncked up about twenty feet. ïhe two men engaged in the work were Gottlieb Juhler and Jacob Kuebler, of Freedom. Juhler flrst gave way to the damp whieh was very strong and Kuebler noïcing it went down afterhim. He atempted to resuscitate him but m a hort time was himselE overeóme by the amp. Clough tried to go down af ter he men but when down only six or ight feet began to feel the effects of 3 e strong gas and gave the signal to aise him. The men who gatheied round the well then tried to reach the odies of the men by hooks but their lothing did not f urnish a secure hold nd it was not nntil ice tongs were seured, which grappled around their bodes, that they were raised to the ground. Kuebler's body was recovered with the least trouble but when the atempt was made to raise Buhler's body t slipped from the tongs when raised ix or eight feet, breaking the plank on which ithad lodged some twenty feet rom the bottom of the well and going lown the wbole distance, being thrown !rom side to sideof the well. The men were three hours in the well after they were overeóme by the gas and they had jeen dead a long time when taken out The damp was so strong that a lantern could not be kept lighted when placed on a plank over the well. Mr. Buhler was a man of about thirty-flve or forty years and leaves a wife and one child. Kuebler, who was a single man, was about twenty-eight years oíd and for a number of years organist of the Freedom church.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News