Austin Hall saved Edward Harris from suffocation, Iva, South Carolina, August 9, 1910. Harris, 28, well digger, was overcome by gas in a well 30 feet deep, and his helpers and another man would not go down to get him. Hall, 22, farmer, was called to the well. Several months before, be had been in the well and had had a headache when he came out. He asked Harris’s helpers to go down for Harris, but they refused. Hall slid down the well rope and set Harris in the bucket attached to it. The bucket upset, and Hall called for a rope. When one was dropped to him, he tied it around Harris and the well rope. He stood with one foot in the bucket and one leg twisted around the well rope, and the men at the top hoisted him and Harris. Hall was growing faint when he reached the top, and a man held him until he was safely out of the bucket. Harris was revived. 10944-1131
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