William A. Hall, 46, school teacher and farmer, died saving R. Lafayette Worley, 35, farmer, from suffocation, Sugar Valley, Georgia, September 6, 1913. Worley was overcome by dynamite fumes in a well 26 feet deep, and men at the top refused to go to the rescue. Worley’s wife appealed to Hall, who was approaching the well, and he immediately agreed to enter the well. Standing on a box at the end of the well rope, he was lowered to the bottom. He tied Worley to the box, and Worley was raised to the surface. Hall was overcome before the box was lowered to him, and he was dead when taken from the well 30 minutes later. Worley’s skull was fractured when he fell, and he died without recovering consciousness, 50 hours after being taken from the well. 11799-969
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