Upton A. Webb, 25, laborer, saved Zachariah Maddux, 32, baker, from suffocation, Dublin, Texas, August 9, 1911. Maddux was overcome in a well by dynamite fumes, and the cries of his aged father attracted Webb and others to the well. After others had failed to respond to the father’s pleas for someone to go down for his son, Webb volunteered to go. He had been warned by a physician not to expose himself to excitement or strain because of a weak heart. Webb was lowered 25 feet to the bottom of the well on a rope, and he tied the rope around Maddux. After Maddux had been hoisted, the rope was lowered, and Webb was raised to the surface. Maddux was unconscious three hours. 7082-944
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