The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1858-12-09

In A PREDIcAMENT On Monday evening last
young gentleman residing in Williamsburg,
New York, was walking down Grand street with
ibis two sisters, when they observed man of re-
spectacle appearance standing near the corner
of Eleventh street with respectfully dressed
young woman. After they had passed, the
stranger stepped up to the young gentlemen
reckoning him aside, stated that he and the young
woman had come to the city to be married. and
were to have met friend of theirs who was to
have "stood up" with them. Their friend not
arriving and they being anxious to have the cere-
mony performed as speedily as possible, he made
bold to ask him if he would stand up" with
them. The gentleman, thinking it would be a
good joke, proposed the affair to his sisters and
they agreeing the whole party went before the
Rev. A. Guion, of the Episcopal Church. and
the loving couple were by him duly married.
The bride is a young woman at service with a
family in New York, and the groom is sailor
just returned from sea The married couple
left the clergyman's residence well pleased, and
thankful for the services of the groomsman and
the unexpected bridesmaids
FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY A shocking calamity
occurred at Norwalk yesterday noon, the partic-
ulars of which have been furnished us by Mr.
Railroad A few weeks since NJ Mckinley, a
machnist, and his two sons Charles and George
dug well near their house to the depth of fifty
seven feet. The well was about eighteen inches
in diameter at the top and three feet at the bot
tom. Yesterday they commenced erecting a
curb around the we'll The windlass which had
been used for drawing up dirt was still standing
over it, and by some means the bucket attached
to the windlass rope became unfastened and fell
to the bottom One ofthe boys put his feet in
the iron hook at the end of the rope and went
down to recover the bucket, the other holding
the windlass the while When some ten feet
on his way down the boy slipped from the rope
and fell to the bottom of the well. Mr. McKin-
ley, wild with horror, put his other son on the
rope, and babe him go down and save his brother
The boy attempted to do so, but lost his hold
when some twelve feet down, and fell to the bot
tom, as his brother had before him. A light was
lowered into the well to enable those above (there
was large crowd congregated) to see the I'M
fortunate lads but the air was so foul that the
light instantly went out
A large number of men worked all Yesterday
afternoon to recover the bodies of the boys
They were raised several times to within eight
or ten feet ofthe top, but the opening was so ex-
tremely small that they could not be pulled out,
and fell violently back to the bottom 1t was
proposed to dig the well out to- day
The boys were aged seventeen and fourteen
years respectively and are described as smart and
worthy boys.
BY special private despatch from Norwalk we
learn that the bodies were recovered at twelve
O'Clock last night. Physicians state that the boys
must have died from the foul air in the well ra-
Their than from the fall Mr. Mckinley is nearly
insane with grief The bodies had fallen and
been pulled nearly up so many times that they
were terribly mutilated when eventually recovered
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