Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — A Remarkable Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Escape.

i I (A VIC* » .1 - __ - We notice an account in to day’s HawkEye of a sad accident which occurred in this city op the, 15th iust., in vyhieh aGerman named ' Stephen Pollmeyer lost his, life bv the caving in pf a well thirty feet debp; ‘Thd article was correct as 1 fhr as the writer knew, as no one at the time it was written had any idea that the accident whiild result in anything but instant death. Such, however, was not the case, the circumstances of the affair being as foljotfS: Two men were engaged in cleanlngthe’ well, when the' in an below (said Stephen Pollmeyer) called to his comrade to draw him out gs the well was about to cave, but before he could be drawn out the sides caved, covering him up. A force of men were at once put to work to extricate the mangled (as they supposed) body of the unfortunate man. They forked steadily in wind and rain until midnight, when one of the workmen, merely out of curiosity, called Pollmeyer sutpriip to near, as be suppqgeu, a voice from the turiw man made the fallowing remark: “I am alive; for God’s sake help me -Shortly afterward, ’-ftyrti* lifting a large stone . they discovered the head of the dead-alive man. But he was so comj)k‘f£ly w&iged In thattfteytlTdhwr get~ him out until five o’clock, after having eighteen hours. He was perfectly conscious, and related the follqwtng storm: -feeing the-yvell - about to ‘cave in, 1 "stfppused my limb limPebme, and shortly after I found myself in total darkuess, with a largo stone resting agaiagt one cheek, and one ovgr my head, forming a cqmpfete arch. I could, breathe without any trouble, hut. could not move. I think fresh air.-HUist have reached me along the rope, which I had hold of at the time of the accident. I could distinctly hear the men at work above me endeavoringtaextriehte me. “I cafne Very hearty) suffocating the last half-hour, as the mete working above me packed the earth so* tightly that it was almost impossible for ,m« Jo breathe- I Joel very sore and stiff, but I think 1 will be srouid again in a few days. I will not attempt to describe my feelings while I was buried alive thirty feet deep.” ’ 1 p -jj Upon finding' ’that the ufan was ifltve; 1 a m+Mrnri feteserlbed for hiih, well. Truly, this seems like a miracle.— -—Fort Madison (Iowa) Dispatch to Burtngttrl 'Hawk- Eye. ... a <w*» —#♦—*»• I ' TfoptnlinilMi,.ofe jigsßefit|K that embarKetffrom tne"fnre6 pr&cipar ports of Germany during the year ißtAwass6,2B9, as against 75,502 In 1874, and 134,191 in 1873. » ■, ; „• . There ate now 1 seven woolen’ Sill* hi Utah, capable of working up over 1,000,000 pounds of wool per annum, while the entire product of the Territory does not exceed 1.200,000 sounds.