This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wait Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/2019 Message Board Post: The NEBRASKA CITY NEWS. Oct. 27, 1877. "DEATHLY DUG-OUT. Horrible Death of Mrs. Wait. The Roof of a Dug-out Falls in and Kills Her Instantly."--The sad intelligence reached us this evening of an accident that happened near Sidney, Iowa last Friday night, and which resulted in death. The FACTS OF THE CASE as near as we can get hold of them are as follows: Last Friday night, between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock, an honest and industrious farmer by the name of Wait, who reside some Three miles north of Sidney, was sitting in his dug-out reading his bible, his wife and youngest child lying on the bed, which was situated near the entrance, the roof of the dug-out fell in, one of the rafters that sustained the arth roof striking Mrs. Wait on the neck KILLING HER INSTANTLY. The castrophe came so sudden that it was a few moments before Mr. Wait could collect his thoughts, and relight the lamp which had been extenguised. Alas! as the flickering light commenced to throw its beams around, what a sight of desolution and death met that poor husband's gaze as his eye wandered aroung that room. There on the bed laid HIS WIFE DEAD, who but a few seconds before was alive and happy. No glimmer of light could be seen from the outside, the entrance being entrely blocked by dirt and boards. After proving to himself that his wife was beyond all earthly help, he tried to make egress out, but found it impossible, in fact he and the children were literally BURIED ALIVE and amongst the dead. With superhuman effort, strengthened by the thought of his children, he at last made a hole large enough so that one of his boys could get through and go for assistance. In about an hours busy hands were at work, and shortly the prisoners as well as the dead were receiving proper attention from kind and loving hands. Mrs. Wait leaves six little chidlren to mourn her loss.