The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-01

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By a'u T,lsn. May Person FAN ana
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,u GREAT a height may per-
!. srs fail and liver s Tn,s quss''o Of Dr..
Sese'' ,Ss Zurich professor, VINO no., r''a u
Bsinl' 'u soll great distance down a
bow he le's e,Tr;tzerland and lived to re-
sa csi, sensations His ann was NJ The
that sud s"ss Of the question-how Tar
other p pD fall unhurt-is just as interest
us, however, rn Aims wanderer. ST.
gist, lsa Alp, Switzerland, and land
KGplsa'U' rocts at the foot of the glacier.
dOn 'no his fall was somewhat broken
he bounded from spur a 10 spns' '''
s a. tsll was great one nevertne,es s.o
the o IA, .hs nersons who have fallen from
VI 'u0 70 record has been kept, but
slOOu aiaeuts have been sufficiently dan
s,ons to prove that great iaii n1es ia Ot
s 'Davs end human life. In July iass
S away post. Dispatch recorded the feat OF
The lO, wbo 10 escape punishment Tor
anv ';no a ride, jumped over the Della
s's s.s bridge on the Erie railroad at so or
T Tarvis, N. Y. He fell distance OF o ~
!sl'' ond though striking on his head III
iSe ~ 40 Of gravel covered only by SIX
peu wafer. he escaped serious in
jury C,o,co petorski, a young Polish boy
uVI ~ went out for huckleberries ON
ago. uonevpot mountain, near Port Jer-
u'o " He yentured too near the
' aSa If a cliff known as Eagle Nest,
'u Ginning ON a stone, was hurled
au NV, The descent is nearly perpendicu-
v, and the lad rolled and bounded over
~. =, tagged rocks distance OF 400 feet
~ ,So nee railroad tracks below. He was
v;,tod m torn and bleeding from hun
i,sd wounds and unconscious, but still
alive. uouo
!, case of age. Mary Cerma, aged ~
Years recently fell 30 feet from a win
aow If 257 Camden street, Newark, N.
and escaped with only badly
bruised hip. She lost her balance while
shaking a 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 Money, y
Years old. tumbled out of third story
window without receiving any injuries
eycept bruised eye and 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 droI
from any height and receive little or nc
injury. In France recently a woman
tried to commit suicide by jumping
from high bridge. She was hardly in
jured. Near Niagara falls woman fel
over precipice and landed some hun
dredf below, alive and able to tell o
il.
Mrs. Annie Keeney leaped out OF
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 a
the time and walked over the roof of he
own house to that of her neighbor' S
She swung off the roof to fire escap
and asked the occupants of 125 10
brandy. On being refused she leaped t
the ground. Clotheslines stretche
across the yard between the tenemen
windows, and the woman rebounded fror
one Of these to another in her fall, unit
she finally landed, badly shaken up, bu
otherwise unhurt.
August Johnson, a joiner, residing j
Middletown, Conn. fell from the fourt
story Of building ON which he Wa
working, turning complete somel
sault and striking with his head O
some boards which projected from til
hrst story. He managed to catch hol
Of the boards, to which he chung unit
he was rescued. He fell 40 feet. e
was not injured in any way.
Edward Christie fell from a scaffol
which gave way at the fourth floor Of
new building at Madison avenue an
seventy second street, New York. A
nough he fell four stories, he sustaint
no more than fracture of the thie
anu right arm. Christian Jensen,
painter, OF White Plains, N. Y, fe
from ladder to the ground, distan'
VI ~ feet, and is alive to tell it. Geor,
raiiey, IA years old, fell through Il
1fe escape of 772 Tenth avenue, Ne
io,K' from the fourth to the first foo
Snu received not the slightest injur
'uvn is the elasticity Of youth.
Express Messenger Edward Stevel
VI , water Valley, Miss, was doing al
.en,rOm his car door. He was not miss,
uu'li 20 miles had been passed. A me
sase was sent back to the effect that
a ~uS' nave fallen from his car. A han
Ss was rugged up and several m,
T ya'Nu down the track to look for hii
, 10y found him three miles away, lyil
mi'hin two feet of the track. sleepin
az mU awoke as soon as they touched hi
ba ' asked what was wanted. He sa
in ~ nsu no recollection Of falling, al
hs'ned himself asleep in his bed
~ I The train was running 40 mil
bprt ui ~ wnen he fell off. He was n