ACCIDENT - JAMES OUTHIER.

OUTHIER

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 12/25/2001 at 20:05:11

Leon Reporter
April l2, l894

MR. JAMES OUTHIER, while engaged in digging a
well just north of here,
on the JONES farm, met with what might have
proved a fatal accident,
last week. He had drilled down with a
fourteen inch hole, about l40
feet, when something happened to the machine,
and he went down to see
where the trouble was. Before reaching the
bottom, he signaled to be
taken up and on reaching the top he was more
dead than alive, having
turned as black as a darky, by damps. After
boreing a few feet further
down, water commenced to fizzle and bubble
like escaping gas was passing
up from below.

MR. OUTHIER says he cannot account for the
strange sound which can
plainly be heard from the top, unless it is
the escaping of gas through
the water. Perhaps it is one of those pesky
cyclones getting ready for
our people, or perhaps we have a gold mine in
the shape of gas,
minerals, etc., right here under our very
eyes that would equal the
great oil fields of Pennsylvania. Who knows.

--GRAND
RIVER NEWS

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