Henry H. Rogers saved Thomas Johnson, 23, farmhand, from suffocation, Mableton, Georgia, August 10, 1914. (See case of HORACE M. PARHAM.) Rogers, 48, farmer, was summoned to the well by a young man who had been at the well at the time of the accident. Rogers knew that there had been gas in the well when the well was dug. He had helped to dig it. He was asked to go to the rescue. He was nervous and apprehensive and hestitated a few minutes, then he grasped the well rope and descended by means of the niches. He tied the rope around Johnson. Rogers began to feel sick. He climbed to the surface with the aid of the well rope, and then Johnson was pulled up and revived. Rogers was too sick to reenter the well, and he went home. 15484-1138
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