Charles B. Moon, 36, deputy sheriff, attempted to save William H. Funk, 32, city marshal, and James V. Godman, 30, civil engineer, from suffocation, Warsaw, Indiana, July 25, 1904. Regardless of warnings, Moon, with two ropes fastened around his chest, started down a ladder in a sewer-lift well, 22 feet deep, to rescue Funk and Godman, who had been overcome by carbonic acid gas near the bottom. When his head was about 10 feet below the surface, it dropped aside, and he was evidently about to fall from the ladder. He was hoisted out of the well in an unconscious condition in less than a half-minute after starting down but was soon revived. Funk and Godman were dead when gotten out. 3670-466
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