Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — Nine Hours in a Cistern. [ARTICLE]

Nine Hours in a Cistern.

Yesterday morning about eight o’clock a little two-year-old child of Mr. Webb Calhoun, living two and a half miles north of the city, fell into the cistern, and the mother, who happened to see the child fall, jumped in after it. Mr. Calhoun, who is dealing in stock, was away from home at the time of the accident, and there was no one on the place, and Mrs. Calhoun, being unable to get out, was compelled to stand in water waist deep from eight o’clock in the morning until five in the evening. The unfortunate woman probably would have had to spend the night in that distressing condition, where, no doubt, she and her child would have perished before morning, if, by her screams, she had not attracted the attention of some children who were returning from school. The school-children heard her cries for help, but it was some time before they discovered and rescued the almost exhausted lady. Indeed, she was so much chilled and fatigued that it will be fortunate if she escapes a severe illness. Dr. Sibly was sent for about seven o’clock last evening, and it is "hoped the lady will escape serious consequences from her long bath.— Dteaiur (III.) Magnet. A good-looking and polite horse-car conductor pleased and married a rich widow in Sacramento recently, and now all the young men are offering for situaTtions on the Btreet-railrdadiß?