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Ernest R Cunningham

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Ernest R Cunningham

Birth
Canada
Death
22 Dec 1944 (aged 72)
Burial
Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.3610061, Longitude: -93.0884078
Plot
B.H L.21
Memorial ID
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald, July 10, 1904
BURIED IN DITCH AND LIVES

Iowan Saved From Death By
Foul Air From Sewer
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Eldora, Ia., July 10, Ernest Cunningham, while digging a deep sewer ditch this afternoon, was buried under four feet of earth for seventeen minutes and then rescued alive. His face was buried near the sewer pipe in the ditch, and for fifteen minutes he breathed the foul air of the sewer. Two doctors had pronounced the man dead before the earth was removed.

Contributed by: Cheryl Locher Moonen #47601076
Dubuque Telegraph Herald, July 10, 1904
BURIED IN DITCH AND LIVES

Iowan Saved From Death By
Foul Air From Sewer
~
Eldora, Ia., July 10, Ernest Cunningham, while digging a deep sewer ditch this afternoon, was buried under four feet of earth for seventeen minutes and then rescued alive. His face was buried near the sewer pipe in the ditch, and for fifteen minutes he breathed the foul air of the sewer. Two doctors had pronounced the man dead before the earth was removed.

Contributed by: Cheryl Locher Moonen #47601076


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