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Show NELSON'S INJURIES WON'T PROVE FATAL LEASE thank tho public for their Jl sympathy, but Inform them that I am very much alive at prcnonl and have no expectation oC dying," said Bort Nelson the Salt Laker who was injured while "iooping-tho-loop" at Provo Wcdnosday night. A report was circulated circu-lated about the city yesterduy alternoon to the effect that Nelson had died "In frightful agony." This statement was Inter denied by Nelson, who said that he felt much hotter and fully expocted to live. Tho atlondlng physicians say that ho will recover. Nelson's Injuries consist of a compound fractum of the left leg, right wrist broken and badly bruised leg. The physi cians uo not Deneve mat nu nos occn injured in-jured Internally. The left arm. Is badly Injured and amputation ampu-tation may bf found necessary. A part of the bono wan or.tracted today, and the mcmbor, If saved, will always be crippled. crip-pled. Nolson lo Inclined to hollevo that tho loop swayed with him. causing him to fall. Pewons who- wltncssod the ride, however, bollovo thnt Nelson wobbled while coming down tho chute He camo dangerously mmr riding off tho narrow incline onco, and whon ho swerved bin wheel ho prob-nbly prob-nbly threw It ovor a trlllle too far. Nelson did not fall from tho lo0p like a lly from a colling, as many suppose, but rodo off tho vertical circle whllo going nearly fifty mlle3 an hour. Ho completed tho hardest part of tho ride, and had just started down tho curved incline when he shot olt into space Thn momentum added greatly to tho force of the fall, and It j seems a. miracle that ho was not Instantly Instant-ly killed. Had he not bfon protectod by 1 his football suit, reath wotild most certainly cer-tainly havo resulted. One of tho first things Nelson did after bolng taken to thf hospital was to Inquire if hla bicycle had been Bcriously damaged. dam-aged. Ho has not yet decided whether he will attempt to "loop-the-loop" If he recovers. |