The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-08-23
FALLS 16 FEET;
LANDS in CAFE
Lights on Table in Res
taurant When SkyIights
Give Way.
INJURIES NOT SERIOUS

Gertrude Gloss, 81 years OLD, es-
caped death by inches late yesterday
afternoon, when she crashed through
two sky-lights and hurtled down into
the Royal Restaurant, IA feet below
She was rushed to St. GATHERINGS
hospital where it was said she had
suffered only minor bruises and shock
No bones were broken.
In her fall the woman barely miss
ed being impaled on an upright hall
tree. SoScIose did she fall that one
of the cast iron hooks snapped off
when she struck it with her left ell
bow. One of the mattresses Mad been
sweeping just before the accident oc-
Cured, and had moved the tree a
foot nearer the front of the place.
Smashes Furniture.
The woman landed on her left side,
on table and chair. The chair was
snapped in two pieces and the table
cracked. Her head missed a sugar
bowl by less than three inches.
The fact that the accident occurred
at $3.50, just prior to the dinner hour
rush, saved from serious injury any
one who might have been dining at
the table upon which Miss Gloss
landed
John Finnen, an employee of The
Evening News and one other man,
both of whom were sitting at the
counter, were the only persons in the
place at the time, beside those en-
ployed there.
Escapes Shower of Glass.
Fate for third time interviewed to
save Miss Gloss. Although directly
in the path of the shower of heavy
glass which followed her, she was
not cut. The large jagged fragments
fell close, but none hit her.
Twice a week, for more than year,
the woman had gained access to the
Office of Attorney Morris Barnett,
where she cleans, by walking across
the ky-light from the Office of DR..
Joseph M. Palt. The reception room
of the physician was always left open,
and rather than trouble to obtain the
key to the lawyers office she crawled
through the window which opens on
the air shaft and over the glass to
the Barnett office window, which was
always unlocked
Warned of Danger.
Two weeks ago H. N. Mills, who has
an Office on the same floor, discovered
the woman crossing the sky-light, and
warned her of the danger of the glass
giving away. She replied that it had
always held, and that she did not con-
slider it particularly dangerous.
In an interview today at the hos
was seized with one Of the dizzy spells
to which she is subject, and that she
may have fallen on the glass. She
thinks that with the additional strain
of her fall, the glass snapped.
Had Crossed Many Times.
''The only way can account for
the fall is that | got one of my dizzy
spells while l was on the sky-light
1 had crossed it many times before,
and it never even threatened to
break. The last l remember I was
standing at Mr.. Barnetts window
which l had just opened. With me
had my rags and pads, and l was just
ready to climb into the window when
remember was lying here in this
room. How ] got here l don't know"
Measurements taken today showed
that the glass is fve-sixteenths of an
inch in thickness. The pane through
which the woman went through the
first sky-light was II inches wide by
8 feet long, while the second pane in
the ceiling of the restaurant was 2
feet 6 inches by 4 feet. Miss Gloss
said today that she weighs 100 pounds !
Thought Woman Dead.
Gustave Graham, Asa Milwaukee |
avenue, proprietor Of the restaurant, |
rushed to the side of the injured !
woman as soon as the glass had |
stopped falling. He said he thought |
she was dead. He felt of her pulse |
and found that she still lived, the fall |
having knocked her unconscious
Former Mayor John G. Joachim was
just pulling away from in front of |
the place with his automobile. Mr.. |
Graham, assisted by Peter Christ and
Mr.. Joachim, carried the woman into !
the car and rushed her to the hos
pital,