An 83-year-old woman was helping her daughter move when she stepped on rotting floorboards in a centuries-old South Carolina home and fell to her death down a hidden well the owner did not know existed there, authorities said.
It took rescuers nearly four hours Sunday afternoon to pull Dorothy Downey’s lifeless body out of the 48-foot-deep hole, Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said in a statement quoted by station WSPA.
Downey was helping her daughter pack up and move out of the home on Park Avenue in Salem, which property records show was built in 1920, Addis said.
As the unsuspecting octogenarian walked across the kitchen floor around 2pm, part of it gave way and collapsed beneath his feet.
Downey’s daughter tried to find him in the crawl space under the house but was unable to find him, according to the police report.
Firefighters who were called were eventually able to locate the woman and bring her back to the surface just before 6 p.m., said the coroner, who determined she died of blunt force trauma from falling 4 stories.
Dorothy Downey, 83, stepped on rotting floorboards in a centuries-old South Carolina home and fell to her death down a hidden well unknown to the owner. WYFF4 He died of blunt force trauma from falling 4 stories. The mother is at home trying to help her daughter move. WYFF4 The old woman fell four stories. Oconee County Sheriff’s Office / Facebook
Addis ruled the death an accident and said he had never seen anything like it in his 31 years as a coroner.
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