CHILD FALLS DOWN A WELL.
Christchurch, January 20,
A five-year-old boy had a miraculous escape from death during the recent holidays. The child had been taken to stay with some relatives in the Malvern district, and a few minutes after his arrival he fell down a well 60ft, deep. When discovered he was standing on the bottom, quite unconcerned, with the water reaching nearly up to his neck. There were.sdveial cross bars supporting the sides of the well at different levels, while -at tbe'- bbttom there was a force pump worked by a windmill on the surface. In his sensational descent , the child missed- all these obstacles, and when he was rescued after staying in. the’water for twenty, minutes it was found that the only injury he had sustained was a slight scratch on his back, and a button WfS missing from his clothing.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 21 January 1909, Page 3
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144CHILD FALLS DOWN A WELL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 21 January 1909, Page 3
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