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Show IRONWORKER FALLS 40 FEET AND LIVES ! John Carr, 1 yearn old. a st met ural 'iron worker employed on the new IVseret ha nk building, Main and First Sout h streets, had a narrow escape from death yesterday, when be fell from a steel beam on the third floor forty feet to the basement. base-ment. (arr was pushing the weight of his body against a rivet while a tVlluw work- 'man. B. Prndley. was welding il. Carr slipped and lost his footing, plunging to the basement. The force of his fall was broken by a ladder which lay on the floor. He was la ken to the entergencv hospital, where Or. Hoy Omesheck f-mud that be sustained a fracture nf a small bone In the right leg, a severely wrenched 'back ami serral minor laceration:;. |