The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-07
BIG FALLS NOT FATAL
That is, HERE is A LONG RECORD
OF JUST SUCH CASES.

by Men, Women and Children-From
What height May Person Fall and
Not Be Killed Thereby?
From how great a height may per
son fall and live? This question was
suggested by the experience OF 1T,
Helm, the Zurich professor, VINO tolo
how he fell great distance down
glacier in Switzerland and lived to re-
late his sensations. His aim was TO prove
that sudden death was not paln1ul. Inc
other nhase of the question-how lar
may we fall unhurt-is just as interest
ing, however. g.
The we'll known Alps wanderer, 81
or;st fell backward off the crown Of the
Eorpfstork Alp, Switzerland, and land
ed on the rocks at thefoot of the glacier.
OF course his fall was somewhat broken
as he bounded from spur to spur, bus
the fall was great one nevertheless.
Of the persons who have fallen from
balloons no record has been kept, but
the accidents have been sufficiently dam
cerous to prove that a great fall does not
always end human life. In July last
The Post Dispatch recorded the feat OF
q negro who, to escape punishment for
stealing a ride, jumped over the Della
ware bridge on the Erie railroad at Port
Jeryis. n. Y. He fell a distance of so
feet, and though striking on mis- head IN
a bed of gravel covered only by SIX
inches of water, he escaped serious IN
| jury.
George Petorski, a young Polish boy
aged II, went out for huckleberrles on
| the Eoneypot mountain, near Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y. He ventured too near the
edge of a cliff known as Eagle Nest,
and, slipping on a stone, was hurled
over. The descent is nearly perpendlcu-
lar and the lad rolled and bounded over
the Jagged rocks distance Of 400 feet
to the railroad tracks below. He was
picked up torn and bleeding from hun
dred wounds and unconscious, but still
alive.
That case had youth in its favor. Here
is a case of age. Mary Cerma, aged ~
wears, recently fell 80 feet from a win
dow of 257 Camden street, Newark, n.
+. and escaped with only a badly
bruised hip. She lost her balance while
shaking busting cloth from the WIN
dow and fell upon hard ground IN the
back yard.
Here is case of an infant: At Rock
away Beach, n. Y, George McVey, 2
wears old, tumbled out of third story
window without receiving any injuries
except bruised eye and a skinned nose.
He crept to the window while his moth
er was asleep. His fall was broken by
an awning.
Women seem especially able to drop
from any height and receive little or no
injury. In France recently a woman
tried to commit suicide by jumping
from a high bridge. She was hardly IN
iured. Near Niagara falls woman fell
over precipice and landed some hun
dre6 feet below, aliye and able to tell OF
it.
Mrs. Annie Keeney leaped out Of a
fifth story window of 1875 East One Hun
dred and Eighth street, New. York, and
sustained only a few slight bruises on
the face. The woman was half asleep at
the time and walked over the roof Of her
own house to that Of her neighbor's.
She swung off the roof to fire escape
and asked the occupants Of 125 for
brandy. On being refused she leaped to
the ground. Clotheslines stretched
across the yard between the tenement
windows, and the woman rebounded from
one of these to another in her fall, until
she finally landed, badly shaken up, but
otherwise unhurt.
August Johnson, joiner, residing IN
Middlerown, Conn, fellfrom the fourth
story of a building on which he was
working, turning complete somer-
l,sault and striking with his head on
some boards which projected from the
first story. He managed to catch hold
Of the boards, to which he clung until
he was rescued. He fell 40 feet. He
was not injured in any way.
Edward Christie fell from scafold
which gave way at the fourth floor of a
new building at Madison avenue and
Seventy-second street, New York. AL
!, though be fell four stories, he sustained
no more than fracture of the thigh
and right arm. Christian Jensen, a
painter, of White Plains, N. Y, fell
from a ladder to the ground, distance
of 40 feet, and is alive to tell it. George
} Falley, II years cid, fell through the
fire escape Of 772 Tenth avenue, New
York, from the fourth to the first floor,
and received not the slightest injury.
Such is the elasticity of youth.
Express Messenger Edward Stevens
Of Water Valley, Miss, was doing and
J fell from his car door. He was not missed
} until 25 miles had been passed. A mes
sage was sent back to the effect that be
must have fallen from his car. A hand
car was rigged up and several men
started down the track to look for him.
They found him three miles away, lying
within two feet Of the track, sleeping.
He awoke as soon as they touched him
and asked what was wanted. He said
he had no recollection Of falling, and
imagined himself asleep in his bed at
home. The train was running 40 miles
an hour when he fell off. He was not
hurt.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Expansion Of Ice.
Ice never bursts from freezing. AS
soon as the liquid OF which it IS COM
posed is frozen solid expansion ceases.
The cracking Or bursting Of ice Is
brought about in this way: When water
is subjected to extreme cold, ice crystals
will gradually form on its surface until
the same are covered with thin coat Of
what appears to be wet snow. From
this outer coating Of ice crystals all sub
sequent freezing goes downward, the
ice thickening according to the degree
of cold. TIE water which is being con-