The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-01-31

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traversely and 80 GontriVed as TO re,
sst considerable pressure.
On Thursday morning Mr.. BuhC
was engaged in removing the curbine
and filling up the old well, and, com.
mencing at the bottom, had filed uE
fourteen feet. His brother was al
the top ofthe shaft, assisting in draw.
ing up the planks. The w0rkmen al
the bottom had drawn about four feet
of the curbing and commenced draw.
ing the earth from the sides, wher
the one at the top saw. him in the
dim light below spring to the ladder
heard him calculate, "Oh I! Christ T
when he was intercepted from view
by the whirling plaRks and the unfor
tuAate man was buried seventy livG
feet under ground. The walls of thC
well had caved in except twenty-five
feet Of the top, and the wretohed OK,
cavator lay overwhelmed and appar'
emily crushed and lifeless at the bot.
tom. The workmen at the top Of the
shaft was hprror,strieken and para
lyzed, The idea of rescue does not
seem to have entered his mind, and
during all day, Thursday, not a spade
was driven into the ground, not an
effort made to exhume tho buried
man. During the day, however, It'd
ings of tho affair had gone abroad,
and some energetic citizens of Am
herst determined that an effort should
be made TO recover the body. r
On Friday morning, under the di-
rcction of an experienced we'll l-digger,
with sufficient force of men, they
set to work. Having to feel their
way carefully, and provide at every
step against the recurrence Of the
same disaster, now doubly imminent
from the loosened state of the earth
adjacent to the walls of the we'll, they
necessarily made slow progress, al
though relays of men kept the work
moving without intermission day and
night.
On Saturday evening at sunset they
wereyet eight feet from the object Of
their search At this time young
man in the bottom of the shaft thrust
his foot into o crsVice between the
pieces Of the broken, twisted, and dis
torteG planks, the original eurbing,
and instantly clambered up the ladder
almost speeehless with agitation and
fright. He had heard a rumbling
noise in the hole Men Of firmer
nerves made haste down the yawning
chasm, and word was instantly passed
up to the expectant crowd above
the man was aliEe; no could speak |
From that moment until his final
release from his fearful prison, the ex
citement among the large concourse
of people who had assembled from
the whole country side to witness or
assist was intense. Soon word came
from below that they could commum-
cate with the buried man, that he was
nearly exhausted he despaired Of al.
innate release, and with his remain
ing strength wanted to communicate
his last wishes 10 his friends. His
brother was sent down, and by plac-
ing his car to tho erevice was enabled
to mako out from the faint voice be-
low the speakers last directions as to
his family and estate. Meanwhile,
means were found to force down
some refreshments through the tortu.
GUS passage between tho fallen planks,
and rags were forced down to enable
him to stop gp some erevioes through
which he said the sand was pouring in
on him, and the work of excavation
went on.
On Sunday morning the diggers
had reached tho buried man, On re-
moving the debris around him, they
found tho poor follow alive. He was
partly sitting with one foot nearly un-
der him, the knee bent outward, and
the whole leg pinionsd By 3 stont
plank resting npon it with both ends
Embedded in the sides Of the well.
II was found no easy task to remove
this plank. in fact it required three
hours assidious labor to chisel away
this wooden fetteP. At last seventy.
two hours after the accident occurred,
the buried man was brought to the
surface. His joy and gratitude know
no bonds. lie offered his deliverers
his money, his horses, his farm, any
thing, everything he poseessedj nor
were the spectators scarcely less pro.
foundly affected.
The poor fellow bad eaten of half
his thick leather belt in the extremity
of his hunger He had everything
that transpired above him, and had
passed the frst tyepty.four hours
OF imprisonment In alternate wonder,
and despair thatno effort was
made to release him. He was only
slightly bruised, aud, at this date, is
walking around scarcely the worsO
for the accident.
FOR a COuRh,