Lance H. Mardiss, 25, farmhand, attempted to save Charles A. Hill, 35, farmer and miner, from suffocation, Naco, Arizona, June 17, 1908. Hill had been overcome at the bottom of a well 168 feet deep, and Mardiss, who knew that the air in the well was bad and that but one man and one woman, both greatly excited, were left to operate the windlass, had himself lowered to Hill. He fastened around Hill the rope by which he had been lowered, and Hill was drawn to the surface. The rope was then let down, and Mardiss was drawn to the surface. He had difficulty in keeping himself from becoming unconscious as he was being drawn up, and when he reached the surface he was nauseated. Hill could not be revived. 3063-684
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