The Charleston Daily News

Sad Accident. -Mr. Thomas Martin, on Tuesday morning, being engaged to clean out a well for Mr. Lowensteine, of this city, was being lowered, but coming in contact with gas, requested the hands at the windlass to draw him up. When within a few feet of the top, he became so much overcome from the effects of the gas, that he let go his hold upon the rope and fell back to the bottom; his skull was badly fractured and his neck broken. Precaution should be taken before entering wells to see whether they are impregnated with gas. This young man's life would have been saved if the proper caution had been taken, we learn. that he had cleaned out the same well some weeks since, and did not apprehend any danger from gas. Rome Commercial.