Joseph R. Haase, 32, brewery worker, died attempting to save William F. Wolters, 33, brewer, from suffocation, Olean, New York, August 21, 1911. Wolters and a boy had been overcome by carbonic acid gas at the bottom of a cistern 14 feet deep. After two another men had made attempts to rescue Wolters, and the boy had been rescued, Haase arrived at the cistern. Refusing to take any precautions for his own safety, Haase, holding one end of a rope, descended into the cistern and attempted to fasten the rope around Wolters’ body, but he was overcome and fell to the bottom. He was gotten out later but could not be revived. 7128-570
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