A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2866, 25 November 1890, Page 2

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

(by telegraph—own correspondent.) Cambridcb, Last Night. One of tho most remarkable accidents that has ever fallen to my lot to chronicle happened to the infant son of Mr F. Poppleof this place on Saturday afternoon. The child who is only two years and nine months old, went to the pump in the yard to get a drink of water, when one or the boards on the well tipped up precipitating itself and the child to the bottom. The well is twenty-four feet deep to the water line and it would be expected tho youngster would be killed by falling such a distance but such was not the case, and indeed, he in a most marvellous manner, escaped without a scratch. Mr Popple ruehed to the well, expecting to see the mangled remains of his child at the bottom, but was nstonished to see him standing on the piace of board that had fallan, and which had lodged across a piece of wood, to which thepnmp pipe was attached, close to the water. Mr Popple descended by the pipe, and tied a rope to the child, who was quickly landed on terra firma. The hole through which the child and the board fell is 9 inches by IG, and how he escaped being injured, and came to bo standing on the board that fell with him is miraculous.