Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-12 | Page 10 | Two Sever Falls

TWO SEVERE FALLS. Lads Climbing Trees Meet With Accidents. As a result of a hunt for birds eggs Keith, the twelve-year-old son of Mrs. j Rosa Poll. Is in a serious condition at 9CJ East Fourth "South. He has concussion con-cussion of the brain, a fracture of the right arm and hand .and severe contusions contu-sions on the face and body. For more than forty-eight hours he has been in a seml-consclousi condition, but Dr. Beer, who is treating him, thinks that he will recover. The boy fell from a poplar tree to a cement sidewalk', a distance of about thirty feet, Saturday afternoon. For a time It wits thought that he was dead, but he slowly revived, A somewhat similar accident befell Philip, the eleven-year-old son of George Blair, Saturday afternoon. He was playing in a tree at his home, 183 Canyon road, and. In attempting to slide down, caught his arm In the pickets pick-ets of the fence and hung for several minutes. He finally disengaged himself him-self and it was found that ho had torn the ligaments under his left arm to such an extent that the artery was exposed. ex-posed. Had the strain been slightly greater, the blood vessel would have been;ru"ptured and the child would have bled ' to death before anything could have been done to save him.