Lars O. Risvold, 26, laborer, died attempting to save William J. Forfar, 23, and Richard H. Craig, 26, well diggers, from suffocation, Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, November 22, 1907. Refusing to tie a rope about himself, Risvold, a total stranger, with his foot in the loop of a cable, had himself lowered into a well, 125 feet deep and two feet in diameter, to help Forfar and Craig, who had been overcome by gas about 70 feet from the surface and had fallen off a crosspiece at the end of the cable. When his head was about 12 feet below the surface, Risvold called that there was gas, but before he could be drawn up again, his foot slipped out of the loop and he dropped on top of Forfar and Craig. All were dead when gotten out. 2494-521
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