The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-21
PLUNGE OF "A FEET.
LOUIS vAHLBrsCH LIVES To TELL
OF TERRIBLE FALL.
He Backs on the Roof of the Big
CenfennfsI MiII-Lfke n Block of
Wood. He Dashes to the Ground
Far Befow-Brush Pile and soft
Earth Save His Life-so BroLen
Bones, but Evidences of Paralysis.

TO think Of plunzfng from the very top
Of the Centennial Mil 10 the ground
makes one snudder. 4 young Tnan took
that awful plunge yesterday afternoon.
ard. strange 70 say. MAJ live 10 tell al
about the sensations experienced while Re
was turning over and over o. Ee shot
down sAvensy-four feet 70 3 bed on the
newiy-made ground over the tide fats
II was the most horrible and a. the
same time most remarkable accident that
baa been recorded Ia the history u this
city for years. To conceive % The truth
OF this statement Il IL only necessary 70
cast ones eye cut on the tide fats az TIE
Centennial mill building. which has Kept
climbing higher and higher into the air
until II Is good six stories high !; is 10
Gated on ground made ~ niiiag ia the
tide fatE and the gzIf water comes NJ
within ten or twelve feet at the north end.
YESTERDAY afternoon Louis Nahlbuseh
was ergaged sn tarriBg The roof He vas
near the north end. There was only ere
other man with him. and he was some dis
fance away. Suddenly he noticed Fahi-
busch disappear. Tie man had backed
Off the roof There was no cry. rs near
a. could DC learned. Down. down went
.he unfortunate man, 20 rapidly that be
looked ike piece OF falling wood % TIE
eyes OF j.. II. Oliver. who saw tie acci-
Dent from the tell gate on the Seattle
Tacoma boulevard seventy-four feet and
young yahihurea struck The ground part
~ on hls bead and side. lie iay there
az II dead. with blood running fof1
wound on bis mouth.
with the exception az AR Oliver. no iiv-
sng eye saw the body shoot through ihe
air me men who were working on the
ground knew nothing Of what had hap
rened until the young man who had been
on the roof and seen yahibusch back on
came climbing down from story 70 story
To- tell them Of what had happened
]. o. Fisher. the engineer, and > a..
Bennett. who II working on The pntldipg
were The first men to reach the north end
Of the building They were hoTriiied 70
sec the body Of young EaiibuSeh stretched
out. partly on The brush baikhead and part
IL on the soft sanH At frss they thought
h. was dead. but on reaching his side they
discovered that he was attn breathing
They asked him his name and he heard
them. re moved and said Louis
what 4 your other namer' they asked.
He tried 70 tell them bur suddenly com
menced to wander In his mind ard talk
about the Fourth of July celebration
As quickly az possible yahibusch was re-
moved to police headquarters In the patrol
wagon and attended b. City Physician
Tames. who accompanied him 20 the Sc
attic general hospital On the way 10 the
mind bat managed to tell his name. al
though he could not give tire street and
number Of his home. From hts talk II was
thought he lived with his mother IN North
Seattle.
After reaching the hospital Fahihusch
vas subjected 30 a superficial examination.
There were no Indications Of broken bones
but evidences OF paralysis were detected.
A second examination was made AT f0.sD
o'clock last night when Dir. Zones an
nouneed that Nahihuseh was suffering
from paralysis OF the lower extfemliles
and paralysis 81 the lower abdominal or
gans. There were indications OF depression
on the spinal cord.
pr Games said that yahlbusch might
I've. ffe said that 4 was wonder that
he was not killed instantaneaasly. as he
struck On hts head and shoulders. but that
he was greatly favored b. the sprlngy
hulkhead and the soft sand
Nnhlhaeeh was employed by G. n Smith.
who has the contract FOR the roofing OF the
Centennial mill. lie u g years old and
had been at work about tao DAYS.