Frank L. Lemley, 57, shovel operator, died attempting to save Walter E. Ramsey, 28, farmer, from suffocation, Jacobsburg, Ohio, November 29, 1958. When Ramsey went to get a pitchfork from inside a silo and did not return for several minutes, Lemley, who was helping on the farm temporarily, went to look for him. A few minutes later Ramsey’s father climbed to near the top of the silo and peered into it through a 16-inch manhole 44 feet above the ground. He saw Ramsey and Lemley inside atop the ensilage, which filled the silo to six feet below the manhole. Lemley was looping a rope around Ramsey, who was unconscious. Stating that he would have to hurry lest he also he overcome, Lemley threw the loose end of the rope to Ramsey’s father, who caught it. As he bent over Ramsey and began to tie a knot in the rope, Lemley lost consciousness and fell forward. The father pulled on the rope, which slipped from Ramsey’s body. He then descended from the silo to summon help. Snow-clogged roads delayed firemen in getting to the farm, and a severe snow storm hampered their attempts to remove the men from the silo. Ramsey and Lemley were removed the following morning by the use of a boom. They were pronounced dead of suffocation from carbon monoxide given off by the ensilage
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