About
midday
The men who hoisted were exposed , and one of them was wounded in the shoulder . He was Peter Bromley , who drove oxen for the Bloodgood wagon , and he was engaged to marry Jane Bloodgood . She jumped out of the rifle pit and ran right to him while the bullets were flying and led him back into shelter . About midday the well caved in , and there was lively work digging out the couple who were buried in the sand . Amos Wentworth did not come to for an hour . After that they timbered the well with bottom boards from the wagons and wagon tongues , and the digging went on . But all they could get , and they were twenty feet down , was damp sand .