Frank A. Kunes, 51, salesman, saved Lemuel Clark, 64, well?digger, from suffocation, Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1911. Clark was overcome by gas at the bottom of a well 24 feet deep. A young man who had no thought of personal danger descended, but in a moment he called for someone to come to aid him. Kunes slid down a rope eight feet long to the top of a ladder in the well and then descended it to Clark. He had scarcely reached Clark before the young man, who began to be affected by the gas, started up the ladder and left the well. Kunes tied a rope around Clarke with considerable difficulty and started up the ladder. Fearing that the rope was not properly fastened, he went back and retied it. He climbed quickly to the top of the ladder and called to be taken out at once. A rope with a knot at the end was lowered to him, and he took hold of it tightly and then lost consciousness. He was raised and grasped by the arms and pulled out. Clark was then drawn up. After an hour they were revived. Thirty minutes later, Kunes’s heart action became bad, and he nearly died. He was disabled 49 days. 7119-797
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