Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
THROUGH A CHIMNEY.
Frightful Fall of q Man Who Wanted
to See Ball Game.
HE CLIMBED UPWARD SIXTY FEET.
While Gazing Around, He Falls Down the
Chimneys Interior.
BADLY INJURED, BUT HE WILL RECOVER

NEW YORK, Aug. SIT is only by rea-
son of some providential circumstance that
Frederick NUM- is alive to-day. As it is,
| he is now lying on a couch in st. Catharine's
Hospital, Brooklyn, with his body swathed
in bandages. 1t will be some time before
he will be able to leave there. He has
| broken leg, broken rib and lacerated
scalp, and while his injuries are painful in
the extreme, there is no danger of his shut
| fling off this mortal coil
All this happened to Frederick NUM-, be-
cause he had no money, and, because, rather
than miss the games of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, which were in PROCESS at
Deckelman's Ridgewood Park, he climbed
to the top of an immense chimney, so feet
in height, and fell down the interior to the
ground.
| NUM- CLIMBS THE CHIMNEY.
NUM- is laborer and is employed in the
construction of the new brewery which is
| being built for George Grauer next to
Deckelman's Park. On Thursday evening
| he left his work shortly after o'clock and
climbed to the top of the immense chimney.
1t had been completed, but the carpenters
had failed to remove the scaffolding around
| the chimney which had been used by the
bricklayers in their work.
Being desirous of seeing some of the
athletic feats, NUM- climbed from
scaffold to scaffold until he had reached
the top of the chimney. When he got there
he stood erect for some time looking at the
contestants in the park, of which he had a
clear view. During a temporary lull in
the proceedings NUM- thought it would be
good idea to inspect the interior of the
chimney. He stood erect all the time.
Looking down the inside to the ground he
became dizzy. There were a dozen people
on the ground who were admiring Munz's
daring in standing on top of the chimney.
DOWN THE YAwNING CHAsM.
When he looked down the inside of the
chimney they saw him waver for a moment,
as though on the edge of yawning preci-
pice, and then, with a low, suppressed cry
he fell within the chimney and disappeared
from view. All those who had been look
ing at him ran toward the base of the i'm
| mense chimney and tried to find him, ex-
pecting that they would see mis- dead and
terribly mangled body there.
Fortunately, there was hole at the base
of the big chimney, about two feet in diam
eter, which the masons and bricklayers had
left open as means of egress for the men
who were putting the iron braces on the in
side of the chimney. Through this aperture
those who had witnessed NUNS terrible
fall peered and saw him lying there, bleed
ing from q dozen wounds and apparently
dying. They dragged him out through the
hole and made him as comfortable as they
could for the time being.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
They sent word to the Long Island Col
lege Hospital for an ambulance but word
was returned from that institution that they
could not send one, as it was outside of the
city limits. St. Catharine's Hospital had
more consideration, and within an hour the
injured man had been removed to that in
stitution. 1t was at first supposed that his
skull was fractured. but such proved not to
be the case. They found that with good
care he would recover.
1t Is simply miraculous that he was not
killed. The general belief is that the numer-
Gus iron girders which bind the walls of the
chimney together broke Munz's fall as he
fell toward the bottom. Had they not been
there he would undoubtedly have been
dashed to pieces on the ground below. Drs.
Mason and Jasper have him under their
charge and expect that he will entirely re-
cover.