Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 14 | Has Narrow Escape

HAS NARROW ESCAPE. Olaf Bjoistad, 60 Years of Ago, Falls to Pavement Prom Window. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, March 7. Tho fact that his fall waa broken when ho struck a can-vna can-vna awning probably saved tho lifo of Olaf Bjoistad, a janitor at tho Boyle building, today, when ho foil from a socond story window, a distanco of cightoon foot, to tho concroto sidewalk below. He escaped with a badly sprained loft shoulder and bruises on tlio loft side of his hoad. Tho physician physi-cian who attendod him docs not be-liovo be-liovo that any bones wore broken. Tho accident ocourred at 2 o'clock this afternoon when Washington avo-nuo avo-nuo was thronged with Saturday shoppers. shop-pers. Bjoistad, who is 00 years old, was washing tho outsido of a window when he toppled off tho stone ledge. Scoroa of porsons who witnessed tho accident ac-cident fully expected that the man had been Instantly killed, no Tras carried to a near-by drug atoro, whero a physician physi-cian attended him. lie was afterward romoved to the homo of a friend.