Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — Suffocated in a Well. [ARTICLE]

Suffocated in a Well.

At Reading, Pa., Charles Smith, aged 12, dropped a knife into a twenty-five foot well, and going down to get it was overcome by gas. Isaac Doyle, aged 26, descended to rescue him and was also overcome, and both were taken out dead.