Source: Hudson Gazette 20 Aug. 1864 Distressing Affair in Wright - Two persons Killed in Well - Mr. Muron Bullis, of Wright, furnishes us with the particulars of a distressing casualty, which took place in that town on Thursday evening, resulting in the death of two persons, Mr. Aaron Pixley , assisted by his sons and Mr. E. Carpenter, was engaged to digging a well on his premises. They had dug sixteen feet and commenced boring. Having bored a depth of about 18 feet, their attention was attracted by a loud roaring , which they thought to be caused by water forcing itself up through the vent made by the augur. This was about six O'clock, and work was suspended until after supper, when Mr. Pixley and son went into the well and began boring four feet deeper, when the roaring increased, and suffocating and depressing gas issuing from the hole, they were compelled to immediately ascend the ladder, being nearly exhausted and their faces of a deadly hue. At this junction, a step-son of Mr. Pixley proposed to go into ! the well, out of curiosity, and against his father's protest, descended the ladder. He had no sooner reached the bottom of the ladder than he fell upon his face. His father, seeing his critical situation, immediately went to his rescue. Clutching the body of his son, he attempted to ascend. Placing one foot upon the ladder, he looked up and said, "I can't stand it". Both fell upon the bottom of the well. and in a few moments expired. Efforts were made by those about to save them, but they were of no avail. The bodies were got out of the well in the course of two or three hours, by getting ropes around their limbs and in this manner, drawing them up. Mr. Pixley was about 47 years and his step-son was 12.