The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-11
BIG FALLS NOT FATAL
THAT IS, HERE is A LONG RECORD
OF iJST SuCH CASES.

suggested by the experience OF DIR.
Helm. the Zurich professor, who told
how he fell great distance down a
glacier in Switzerland and lived to re.
late his sensations. His aim was to prove
that sudden death was not painful The
other phase of the quest on-how far
may we fall unhurt--is Just as interest.
Ing, however.
The well known Alps wanderer, ST.
grist, fell backward off the crown Of the |
Korpfstork Alp, Switzerland, and land.
Ell on the rocks at the foot Of the glacier.
OF course his fall was somewhat broken /
as he bounded from spur to spur, but /
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 dan.
gerous to prove that great fall does not
always end human life. In July last
| The Post. Dispatch recorded the feat OF
negro who, to escape punishment for
stealing a ride, jumped over the Della
ware bridge ON the Erie railroad at Port
Jervis, II. Y. He fell distance of so
feet, and though striking ON his head in
bed of gravel covered only by six
inches Of water, he escaped serious in
jury.
George Petorski, young Polish boy
aged II. went out for huckleberries ON
the Honeypot mountain, near Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y. He yentured too near the
edge of cliff known as Eagle Nest,
and, slipping on stone, was hurled
over The descent is nearly perpendicu-
lay and the lad rolled and bounded over
tho Jagged rocks distance of 400 feet
% the railroad tracks below. He was
picked up torn and bleeding from hun
dred wounds and unconscious, bnt still
alive.
That case had youth in its favor. Here
is u case of age Mary Cerma, aged 10
years, recently fell 30 feet from Win
dow CT 257 Camden street, Newark, N.
j., and escaped with only 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
years old, tumbled out of third story
window withou. receiving any injuries
sxcept bruised eye and skinned nose.
&c 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 woman
tried to commit suicide by jumping
from high bridge. She was hardly in
;ured. Near Niagara falls woman fell
. over a precipice and landed some hun
ared feet below, alive and able to tell OF
! Il.
= Mrs. Annie Keeney leaped out of
fifth story window of 1876 East One Hun
dred and Eighth street, New York, and
sustained only few slight bruises on
the face. The woman was half asleep at
tae time and walked over the roof OF hel
own house to that of her neighbor s.
She swung off the roof to fire escape
aud asked the occupants OF 10 1o'
brandy On being refused she leaped tt
the ground. Clotheslines stretched
. scross the yard between the tenement
:. windows. and the woman rebounded IRON
enc of these to another i'll her fall, unti
she finally landed, badly shaken up, bu
= otherwise unhurt.
! August Johnson, joiner, residing II
" Middletown, Conn. fell from the fourth
= story of a building on which he wa
% working, turning complete somer
! sault and striking with his head OF
some boards which projected from tn
"a first story. He managed to catch hol'
10 of the boards, to which he chung unit
10 he was rescued. He fell 40 feet. n
u was not injured in any way.
81 Edward Christie fell from scaffol
"a viii N gave way at the fourth floor OF
n new building at Madison avenue an
D. Seventy second street, New York. A.
IS though he fell four stories, he sustaine
ID M more than fracture Of the thlg
N and right arm. Christian Jensen,
i, nainter. of White Plains, N. Y, fel
from a ladder to the ground, distanc
Of 40 feet, and is alive to tell 1t. Georg
Falley. ID years old, fell through tn
~ fire escape of 772 Tenth avenue, Me-
- York, from the fourth to the frst nool
.. and received not the slightest injury
~, Sucb is the elasticity Of youth.
Va EXPRESS Messenger Edward Stevei
70 If Water Valley, Miss, was doing an
GO GO fell from his car door. He was not MISE
vs. until 25 miles had been passed. A me
:. sage was sent back to the effect that
mnst have fallen from his car. A han
-, car was rugged up and several me
VI started down the track to look Tor hin
NJ NJ They found him three miles away, Tyr
ns within two feet of the track, sleeping
as He awoke as soon as they touched nj
10 80 and asked what was wanted. he sal
az he had no recollection of falling, al
i hs imagined himself asleep in his bed 4,
ne home. The train was running Az mil
We We an hour when he fell off. He was ID
bnrt.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.