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Show FALL MAY PROVE FATAL. Aeronaut Falls as a Result of Parachute Para-chute Falling to Open. Salt Lake City. With both ankles broken, with possibly fatal Injuries, and suffering from profound shock, Joseph McMann, nn aeronaut, Is lylug at the Holy Cross hospital as the result re-sult of a fall from a balloon while making an ascension at tho Salt Palace Pal-ace a few minutes after 8 o'clock Sunday Sun-day night McMann, who ls 29 years old and single, and VhoBo home Is in a small town near Des Moines, la., was on the program at the Salt Palace to glvo what Is known aB the "cannon. act." His performance was witnessed by a crowd of fully 3.000 persons. Tho parachute failed to open and McMann fell a distance of 200 feet, alighting In a flold of cultivated ground. |