Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
FALL FROM WINDOW
PROVES FATAL
Sam Johnson, Popular High
School Senior, Died at
Hospital Last Night.
THE FUNERAL TODAY
Was Playing Basketball When lie Col
Iided With Player and Fell
From Third Story.
THE FUNERAL TODAY

Sam Johnson, IS years old, a mem
Der of the Senior class Of the Pine
Bluff H gh School, and one Of the
most popular young men in the city
died last evening shortly before
O'Clock from injuries sustained in a
fall through a window on the gym
nasium floor of the Y. NJ. c.. A. TO
the concrete walk on the Firth ave
nue. side of the building, about 2:45
o'clock yesterday afternoon. A frac-
ture at the base of h g skull, causing
concussion of the brain, was the cause
broken and the body badly bruised.
The youths in the gymnasium were
aorror stricken for moment and then
rushed to the spot where the injured
boy lay in a pool of blood. Jay Sloan,
young Johnsons classmate and a
member of the high school football
team of which Johnson was also a
member, assisted by another, carried
Johnson into the blu lding. Physic-
ians and an ambulance were summon
I'd and Johnson was taken to the
Davis hospital where, after thor
there were no hopes for recovery.
Johnson never recovered conscious
ness befort death ensued.
Johnson was a candidate to become
a member of the high school basket
ball squad and he was one of team
of high school boys playing a pract ce
game against another picked team.
The several windows on the south
side of the gymnasium are covered
with heavy wire screens to protect
the glass and also TO prevent any ac-
.cident of the nature of which john
over the window at the west end of
the gymnasium had been removed by
some of the boys to raise window
because the atmosphere in the room
was close. When the game started
none of the players thought of the
open window without it's protection
According to the story told by some
of the boys who were participating in
he game the basketball was thrown
towards the open window. Johnson
and Marshall Long, another player,
both dashed after the ball at the
same time, Johnson going at an angle
the direction of the window. Long
and Johnson collided and the latter
plunged toward the opening. He was
unable to regain his equilibrium and
plunged through the space. His
lower limbs struck the low sill and
slightly checked his fall for an in
slant, while he grasped at the edge
of the II. Long had turned and
seeing the danger of his companion,
grasper his hand but his hold was
broken and Johnson, without uttering
a sound, plunged to the sidewalk be-
low. His body made half circle in
falling and he struck upon his head
and left shoulder.
Johnsons stepfather and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Eiland, and SIS
ter, Miss Ethel Johnson, were notified
of the accident and arrived at the
association building in few minutes.
The mothers andsister were in a frenzy
of grief. They We're taken to the hos
pital and remained beside the injured
boy until he died. Johnson's class
mates and those who were playing in
The game, too, were grief stricken, and
Prof. L. E. Bassett, director of the
athletics at the school, of whom John
'on was close friend, wept like a
Oh Id.
The news spread over the city rap