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Terrible well accident claims life on Lindsay farm
Edward Knight, contractor, died from sand suffocation after a cave in while deepening a water well on Mr. A Lindsay’s farm five miles west. Local helpers Lionel Ward and Samuel Birch assisted. the body entombed about seventy three feet below the surface with around fifteen feet of sand overhead. Coroner to investigate. no evident criminal neglect. Knight, formerly of Aberdeen, Scotland, had served as municipal constable and health inspector.
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