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When he began digging the well under Brooklyn's Sixteenth Avenue Garage, brawny, heavy-shouldered Dominick Atteo took all the short cuts he could. He had done hundreds of such sweaty, commonplace jobs, and all the garage owner wanted was a hole to supply water for car washing during the New York water shortage. At 50, Dominick had six children and a pretty auburn-haired wife, and had to stretch dollars as far as they would...
...called in. They cut the ends from an oil drum, lowered it around him as protection against further caving and then began to shore the well with lumber and rig supports under the roof in case digging weakened the pillar. A crowd gathered. Photographers fired flashbulbs down the hole; Dominick grinned up sheepishly...
...workman threw a bucketful of water down on Dominick. Another squirted a fire extinguisher at him. The fire puffed out. Dominick had made no sound, but he had endured fearful burns. His shirt was all but gone, he had breathed flame, and his throat and lungs were scorched. The rescue work stopped and Dr. Harold Berson, a young intern from Coney Island Hospital, was lowered to him. He greased the burns and gave Dominick morphine; a priest was lowered, performed the last rites of the Catholic Church...
...garage floor. A huge bucket crane rumbled ponderously into the garage. The rescuers began digging a deep slanting ditch to connect with the well. All night, all through the early morning, as the frantic work went on, people took turns kneeling at the mouth of the well to encourage Dominick...
...Abundant Life. In Astoria, N.Y., Mrs. Dominick Rondi was excused from jury duty so that she could go to Manhattan and select the prizes she had won on a radio quiz show...