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The Evening Herald
Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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In South Perry near Chillicothe, Ohio, on Aug. 6, Joseph Bingham and his brother-in-law Oliver Benway were killed by poisonous gases while digging a well. Bingham entered first and died; Benway attempted rescue but fell from the bucket and perished. Both left large families.
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CHILLICOTHE, O., Aug. 6.-At South Perry, Joseph Bingham and a brother-in-law, Oliver Benway, were digging a well. Bingham entered the well. Not hearing Bingham at work Benway called to him, but receiving no answer he then had his wife and another woman lower him into the well, where he found Bingham dead, having been killed by poisonous gases. Finding himself being overcome he signaled the women to pull him up, but before reaching the top he fell from the bucket and was killed also. Both leave large families.
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South Perry
Event Date
Aug. 6
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both men killed by poisonous gases; left large families.
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Joseph Bingham and Oliver Benway were digging a well at South Perry. Bingham entered the well and was overcome by poisonous gases. Benway, lowered in to check, found him dead and signaled to be pulled up but fell from the bucket and died before reaching the top.