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Alpena (Michigan) Weekly Argus
Tuesday, September 26, 1871 - p. 2

        Buried Alive.

        INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 20. - This morning after the laborers had
     commenced work on the Kentucky avenue sewer, a section of the bank on
     both sides caved in, covering the men with ten or fifteen feet of
     gravel and sand. Every effort was immediately made to rescue the un-
     fortunate victims, and up to noon two had been taken out alive and one
     dead. Two others can be heard, and will soon be reached. It is not
     definitely known how many were buried, but it is supposed that ten or
     fifteen were engaged on that portion of the work at the time of the
     accident.

        INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 20. - Five more dead bodies were recovered from
     the Kentucky avenue sewer accident this afternoon, and two more known
     to have been at work are missing and supposed to be in the bottom of
     the sewer, making the total number killed eight. The work of excavat-
     ing is steadily progressing and the last of the victims will be reach-
     ed today.
        The following are the names of those killed, as far as ascertained:
     JESSE BARNS, HENRY DUGAN, THOMAS KENNEDY, JOHN CARRAND, JOHN HALEY and
     JERRY SULLIVAN.
        The accident is supposed to have been caused from insufficient
     sheeting below which the earth had been excavated for two or three
     feet. The contractors say that the work has been done in a precisely
     similar manner elsewhere, but think the accident resulted from the
     nature of the soil and the continuous jarring of trains passing within
     fifty feet of the point where the accident occurred. The matter will
     be fully investigated by the coroner. JOHN GIBSON, buried several feet
     in the sand, was rescued with but slight bruises. Three others engaged
     in the same gang escaped with but slight injuries.

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