New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-28
Rescuers Dig All Night i'm
Race With Rising Water
but Entombed Victim
Is Dead When Reached
Efforts Are Baked
BY Falling Rocks
sgt's Up to My Chin Now,
Hurry!" His Last Cry,
Then Voice Is SiIenced

VEST ORANGE. N. j., May 2S (Sat-
arday>.--The body of Michael Kovzy-
s.ski who was trapped and drowned in
. well on the summit of Orange Noun
ssin to-day was retrieved at o'clock
shis morning by men who had worked
for fourteen hours on the slender
chance that he was still alive.
4 puln1otor was at hand when at
length the rescuers removed the
stones which had caved in, and drew
forth the body, but the man had been
dead for hours. The slow return of
the water that had been pumped from
the we'll, which Kovzyniski had been
cleaning, drowned the imprisoned man.
Tie volunteers who were working
desperately TO free him, heard his last
cry, "The water is up to my chin"
and then what they believe to have
been his dying gasp, late yesterday
afternoon.
Keep Up Their Efforts
They did not abate their efforts,
however, hoping that he might posi-
bly, be revived.
The we'll is on Joseph Nowak's farm.
lie and Kovzyniski pumped it dry yes
teEday morning and Newark lowered his
fellow worker on q rope to clean it out.
The rope, which still was fast be-
meath Kovzyniski's arms, sawed back
snd forth across the stoneworx as he
moved about his task at the bottom,
catching now and then on projecting
stones and loosening them in their
sockets.
About 1880 o'clock several of the
stones fell, some OF them striking
KovSyniski and others jamming about
half way down the well, sealing it..
Nogak ran to the Spottiswoode-C Cusack
quarry, few hundred feet away, and
returned with band of men, headed
BY Nathaniel ]. Beam, the suoerin-
tendent.
A bucket was rugged and two men
tisked their lives on the fallen stones,
heaying and prying at them to get
them one by one into the bucket. From
time to time more of the masonry
erumbled and fell on them, but there
vas no lack of volunteers for the work.
For several hours Koyzyniski con-
Fersed cheerfully with those who
toiiei few feet above his head. Fairly
IN the afternoon, however, he became
alarmed at the rise of the water in the
we'll. II already was above his ankles.
be said.
A call was sent for the fire DEPART
hent In the hope that an aperture
could be made for hose and the water
pumped from the we'll again. Every
ehorr to make an opening for the hose,
aowever,, merely added to the heap of
stones which jammed the shaft and the
atIempt had to be given up.
Meantime, Kovzyniski was beseech-
ing me men to make haste.
Inc waters up above my waist" he
ssla. i can feel it creeping up my
enest. You've got to hurry"
They hurried. Regardless of huge
ot.oulders which rocked in their sockets.
she quarrymen toiled at the rock pile
osheath which Kovzyniski's voice
sounded, quayering with cold and fear,
for COOS sake hurry!" he implored
ABOUT o'clock. "It's up to NV chini u
lew minutes later, shortly after d
ocioek' the men in the shaft heard a
.oIuDoling and gurgling. Thereafter
mere mere was no sound. Firemen and
gaGarrymen continued their work, while
{ Vathollc priest and an ambulance and
iIterh iY from the range Memorial
brought cut.