Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — A Fearful Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Fearful Accident.

A'fearful -accident occurred in Fiskdale, Village, Sturbridge, on Monday. Air. Florence ATahoney, of Fiskdale, was employed to clean out a well about thirty feet deep for Air. Alpheus Prouty of that village. had completed the job, and was ascending the well, at about half past nine o’clock A. Al., when the stones gave way and the well caved in, burying him at the bottom. The neighborhood was rallied and came to- his rescue, and labored with intense zeal and perseverence until about seven o’clock P.' Al., when Mr. Mahoney was taken out alive, but his head was most horribly mutilated When they came within a jew feet of him, they could converse with him. and learned that the well was filling up with water, and that it was already running into his mouth. They spared no time in applying the pump, and soon lowered the water, and proceeded with their work in removing the earth. During the last few hours was in intense agony of body and mind, and when relieved from his confinement was insensible for some time. He was carried into the bouse of Mr. Prouty, where medical aid was at hand, and everything was done for j his comfbrt and .restoration, and hopes are entertained by hia physician of his recova-* j ry.— Worcester Spy- -

Indictment Against a Democratic Officeholder. —The . grand jury of Ramsey county, fouad indictments against Edward H. Heenan, Register of Deeds of*that county, for embezzling $4,000, for perjury, for unauthorized charges, &c. He was held to bail in SIO,OOO. Mr. Heenan is a prominent Democratic politician. A piece of the Atlantic telegraph cable, purchased from Messrs. Tiffany & Co., of New York city, is submerged in the Ohio river between Evansville, Indiana,and Henderson, Kentucky, and works admirably.