The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-04-03
Two Deaths In A Well.

evening telling OF the death OF Ray
Watson and Lew Breshea,s at the
home of II. A. Johnson, twenty-tw
miles north of town. At the time
the word came in it was not certain
that MIR. Breshears was dead, and Dr.
Clay and Undertaken r. V. Tucker
Immediately started for the scene of
the accident. When about twelve
miles out they were informed by
another. messenger that The boys were
both dead.
Lew Breshears had been stopping
at the johnson home the past winter
and at odd times been digging in
we'll at that place up to about month
ago when the work was stopped on
account of rock. Monday the work
was resumed, and Mr.. Breshears was
blasting the rock. He failed to raise
the rock with the first charge and at
noon put in another, much heavier,
and about 4 o'clock went down to
see the results. He went down the
~ feet i'm safety but at the bottom he
called to the boys on top to pull him
up as the gas was yet too strong to
work in, and when he was raised
about ] 5 feet he was overcome by the
gas and fell back to the bottom un-
conscious.
Ray Watson had happened over
where the well-digging was going on
a few minutes prior to the accident.
and when he saw his friend fall back
he caught the bucket and told them
to lower him. He also reached the
bottom safely, but could do nothing
on account of the gas. and called to
be pulled up. 1t appears there was
two deposits of gas in the we'll, one
at about Is feet from the bottom and
orc = about 4O yIfct. He came
i Through the first deposit and called
to be pulled faster, and when he went
through the second he lost conscious
ness and fell to the bottom. He was
badly bruised. having hit the curbing
severa! times in his fall Death i'm
his case was instantaneous.
Aid was summoned from the near
est places, and NJ. II. Misfeldt and
Ole Simonson arrived there from
Malta, and the work of rescuing the
boys was Immediately commenced. |
After about one hours work bailino
gas llex. Macarthur was lowered and
the bodies were taken to the surface.
Mr.. Watson came to this place
from Langdon, n. Oak, three years
ago this spring, and has lived on bis
homestead north of town since. He
was an excellent young man with no
bad habits and commanded the re-
spect Of all who knew him, and his
friends were numbered by scores. He
| leaves to mourn his departure lov-
ing wife and three little ones, sister,
Pearl, who resides here, brother,
Floyd, of Great Falls, this state. His
father lives in Iowa, another brother
in Kansas. The sympathy of all is
extended to the bereaved ones i'm
their sorrow. The funeral services
We're under the auspices of the Odd
Fellows Lodge, of which he was a
member.
Luther Breshears has lived here for
the past year or so, having come here
from North Dakota, where he was
we'll known and highly respected-a
young man of excellent habits. He
will be remembered by many citize ms
of this town as the young man who
ran the separator last fall for J. r.
Stubblefeld. He has a claim up
north, and some personal property.
Little is known of his people as he
was quiet fellow and talked very
little. From what we have learned
from associating with him his father
lives in Missouri, brother in Colo
rado, and sister in Oklahoma. The
addresses are unknown. He has a
niece in Lewisberg, Mo-, who has
been notified Of the sad death.
The funeral service of the untortu-