Little Girl Is Rescued From Well

Jacksonville, Ala., May 2– Falling into a 95-foot well, and rescued alive is the dramatic and all but tragic experience of Geneva, 14-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Green of near Williams School House.
Wednesday morning, the mother was washing in the yard and the child was playing around the well when a plank gave away, and the child plunged to the bottom of the well. Instantly the mother screamed for help, and fortunately Mr. Floyd E. Owens, who was working nearby with a road crew, heard the screams and rushed to the well. Procuring a rope as quickly as possible, Mr. Owens rushed into the well, and found the child had apparently been drowned. In making his ascent to the top of the well as rapidly as possible, and holding the child by one foot, head down, by the time the top of the well was reached the child began to cry, and in a few moments the child was breathing normal again.
Dr. James Williams was promptly called, and administered medical aid, and it is thought that the act of holding the child head down was the thing that saved its life, causing the water to drain from its body and saving its life.
Owens said the child had gone under the third time before he could reach the bottom of the well and rescue it.

PIEDMONT JOURNAL FRIDAY MAY, 1930