Basker N. Burel, 21, student, saved Adolphus Bowls, 28, farmer, from suffocation, Duncan’s Creek, Georgia, August 9, 1912. Bowls was working in a well, three feet in diameter and 50 feet deep. He was overcome by carbon dioxide and fell to the bottom. Burel and others were attracted to the well, and when they learned what was wrong, three men, one of them Bowls’s assistant, refused in Burel’s hearing to enter the well. Burel took off his shoes and descended to Bowls by means of notches that were cut in two sides of the well. He tied a rope around Bowls and then climbed to the surface without assistance. Bowls was raised and was revived. 9176-777
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