Show W WORKMEN HAVE ff it A A va A CLOSE CALL rigging Riggin ff wrecked as court house girder was being raised to place several members of 0 the minneapolis steel construction Conet ruction company of salt lake city reached price on sunday and the following rooming morning began tho thu work of putting in I 1 position the bin big 6 ton steel girders which arc are to epan spun the walla walls of the ima county court house heavy wooden shears were raised from tho the second etory story floor of tho the building and whal why thu the tackle running out from iron thea these had been attached to the girders a bearn of eight horses heroes furnished the motive power to raise the great mass of riveted iron to the place prepared for it in the half completed wala walls above big crowds the work attracted by lie its l nature locally a and nd the apparently hazardous character of the undertaking all avent well the very last moment when one of the cuy guy ropes parted and the great shears girder and all camo came dowa upon tha the contrato cone con reto crato roof with a crash two of the workmen one standing on each of the supporting walls ready to adjust the stringer as a it to its position leaped for their lives as a the tangled zasa of timbers iron ropes and caino down for a time it was thought that one of the men hud been caught under the wreck and crushed to te death ho ile wa w eoon soon alen to emerge however and a shout of congratulation went up to him from the croud below except for the displacement of some of tho hric brick k comp composing sing the two walla walls and the repair to rigging riggin if made feces sary by the accident little atle damage was done its an ill wind that blows nobody good and contractor ryland certainly haa his reason to congratulate himself on the proof this accident furnish edof the strength and stability of the concrete floor upon which tho the big girder fell an a ordinary floor would beyond a doubt hav have e been smashed into into smIth erines by the heavy impact but in this case tho the aly effect wm was a mero cratch scratch where th the sharp corner of the girder struck the concrete the irbe solid noor floor was not budged a and it if there J have been beon any doubts as to the bip rap po porting arting pon power er ol 01 this particular floor door the th they ey were inato instantly antly removed by demonstration of etre ath and arid solidity which blon mondays days occident f furnished urnis bed the floor is to solid and strong ae as the 1 rock of gibralter |