The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
RIG FALLS NOT FATAL
Lar IS. HERE is A LONG Rscohr
' oF LIST MicH CASES.

-kabls "Hich anu Loi'S iui"S'"s
:, Men, Women and Chi'dren--fr"n'
,y.., Height May Person Fall "no
a.. IA Killed Thereby?
Nom how great height may per
81, and live? This question was
SUI s,od nv the experience OF DIR.
s %s;m the Zurich professor who told
h"n he fell a great distance down
NV u,"o;er in Switzerland and lived to re-
sas; sensations. His aim was to- prove
n' '. sudden death was not painful The
.a asS. nbase of the question-how far
O'nU' ,ya fall unhurt-is just as interest
ing, however. A,ns o,doror e..
u.;st fell backward off the crown OF the
SEornfstork Alp, Switzerland, and lana
aSon tina rocks at the foot OF the glacier.
~ conrse his fall was somewhat broken
so hounded from spur to spur. but
.Sa fall was great one nevertheless.
Nc the nersons who have fallen from
,.,,oons no record has been kept, but
the accidents have been sufficiently dan
.erous to prove that great fall does not
Tvs end human life. In July last
Srso post. Dispatch recorded the feat OF
negro who, TO escape punishment for
s,oaIiup a ride, jumped over the Della
,~oro bridge ON the Erie railroad at Port
lewis II. Y. He fell distance OF &C
saat and though striking on his head in
q he'd of gravel covered only by SIX
inches Of water, he escaped serious in
jury. po,;.. hor
"a ~ went ont for huckleberries ON
the Honeypot mountain, near Fort Jer-
r;o N Y He ventured too near the
odoa If a cliff known as Eagle Nest,
and. slipping on stone, was hurled
over The descent is nearly perpendicu-
Iar and the lad rolled and bounded over
tho Jagged rocks distance OF 400 feet
10 the railroad tracks below. He was
picked up torn and bleeding from a hum
ared wounds and unconscious, but still
alive.
That case had youth in its favor. Here
lisa case of age. Mary Cerma, aged 70
years, recently fell 30 feet from win
dow Of 257 Camden street, Newark, N.
J.. and escaped with only badly
bruised hin. She lost her balance while
shaking busting cloth from the win
dow and fell upon hard ground in the
back yard
Here is a case of an infant: At Rock
away Beach, n. Y, George McVey, 2
years old. tumbled out of third story
window withou. receiving any injuries
except bruised eye and skinned nose.
Se 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 nc
injury. In France recently woman
tried to commit suicide by jumping
from high bridge. She was hardly in
jured. Near Niagara falls woman fell
over precipice and landed some hun
dredfeet below, alive and able to tell Of
it.
Mrs. Annie Keeney leaped out Of q
fifth story window of 1875 East One Hun
dred and Eighth street, New York, ant
sustained only few slight bruises OF
the face The woman was half asleep al
the time and walked over the roof of hel
own house to that Of her neighbor' 8
She swung off the roof to fire escape
aud asked the occupants of 1876 fo
brandy On being refused she leaped tt
The ground. Clotheslines stretched
sIoSS the yard between the tenemen
windows, and the woman rebounded from
we OF these to another in her fall, unit
Voc finally landed, badly shaken up, bu
Therwise unhurt.
august Johnson, joiner, residing il
hiddletown, Conn.,, fell from the fourtl
IVORY OF building ON which he wa
NOtkng turning complete somer
@uit and striking with his head OF
sOme boards which projected from tn
MIST story He managed to catch hol,
" lne boards, to which he chung unit
40 was rescued. He fell 40 feet. II
"% ~, injured in any way
Laward Christie fell from a scaffol
"u'cn gave way at the fourth floor of
S. ouiiding at Madison avenue an
sV'0n'y' second street, New York. Al
'usn ne Tell four stories, he sustaine
NJ more than fracture of the thig
W. rght arm. Christian Jensen,
amer un OF White Plains, N. Y, fel
Nun ~ a a ladder to the ground, distanc
,l ~ ,set, and is alive to tell it. Georg
!, rae ~. IA years old. fell through til
~. escape Of 772 Tenth avenue, Ne,
nd NJ , IRON the fourth to the first foo,
oOh :" not the slightest injury
40 he elasticity of youth.
WS a. Messenger Edward Steven
n Tsser valley, Miss, was doing an
MI lou o. DIS Car door. He was not misse
D. % a., 80 miles had been passed. A mes
g ost I vas sent back to the effect that b
o. Wa ~a'e fallen from his car. A han
% rtsS a' :. rugged up and several me
Do bev fau uUwn the track to look for him
hH thin 't t~a him three miles away, lyin
'ns swo Two ieet of the track, sleeping
DC b asL sS az as soon as they touched hir
ing had I'u what was wanted. He sal
o. Agiusd 10 :; recollection of falling, an
Ut, be- '' Tl himself asleep in his bed !
lOy, hour WI, us. train was running 40 mile
60, k~s snen he fell off. He was nc
ims LUIS Post-Dispatch.