The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-03
OVER EDGE OF EAST ROCK
TEN YEIR-OLD WTLLTAM ROM- BERG FELL AT HAIRPIN BEND.
He Was Riding a Wheel When He Went Over the Railing and Rolled Fifty Feet Down the Steep Incline Scalp Wounds and Bad Bruises the Extent of His Injuries His Father Threatens to Sue tho City.
to Sue tho City.

1 One more piece of evidence was yes terday added at East Rock to the proof of the oft-heard statement that boys
 can stand anything. William Rombarg,
 ten-year-old boy who lives at No. 31
 Greene street fell about fifty feet down
 the face of East Rock, and instead of being instantly killed and frightfully
 mangled, as one might expect him to
 be by such fall, he was getting along
 nicely last night and nursing a few bad
 cuts and bruises, apparently the extent
 of his injuries.
 The boy, his parents and some Bran-
 ford young ladies who were visiting
 them went out to East Rock park yes
 terday afternoon, the boy riding a bi-
 cycle and the rest of the party walk
 ing. After they arrived at the summit of the Rock the rest of the party start ed to make descent by path, while the
 boy on his wheel started to ride down Farnam Drive.
 Mounted Park Policeman Enright saw him, and said last night that he noticed that the boy was riding wheel which was too high for him, he not be- ing able to touch the pedals with his feet during all of their revolutions En- right and Superintendent Beebe, of the park who also saw the boy, remarked upon the fact that the wheel was too high for him and wondered how he could control the wheel to keep 1t from running away with him in riding down the drive.
 All went well, however, until the lit- tie fellow reached what is known as Hairpin Bend on Farnam Drive, the grade and the shortest turn of any on the Rock drives When he reached this bend stories as to details differ somewhat, but all agree as to the results.
 Policeman Enright said last night that the boy in rounding the bend lost control of the wheel, which ran into the railing on the precipice side of the drive, pitching the boy over the handle bars and over the railing and pumping down the rough face of the rock to a shelf about fifty feet below, where he stopped.
 Enright was on the drive just above and hurried down the Rock by a round- dpOul way, diu Dy eiIu managed to get down to where d young Romberg was, expecting to findT his lifeless remains there. He found the boy unconscious and managed to carry him on down to the roadway at the foot of the Rock, where he revived The police ambulance was called and In it he was taken to his home on Greene street, where Dr. Baker was called to attend him. The physician 'ound that he had received two bad cuts on the head, that piece of the scalp lad been torn away from the skull, that ne was badly bruised about the body, md that his system was badly shaken lp. No serious results are anticipated, 
 The boys story as to the cause of the | accident differs considerably from the 'tory told by others who were near by l when it occurred. The boy says that | og about six or eight inches in diame- | CT and about ten feet long was lying | beside the drive, and that the wheel | an into this. He says that the wheel l truck this log with such force as to hove it on over the edge of the rock, | nd that it went rolling and pumping town with him. His father last night aid that he would sue the city for The wheel, which went over he edge of the precipice with the boy, vas considerably broken.