Show High Wire Cyclist Falls to 10 Death When Grip Fails ST. ST PAUL Minn Aug 26 28 UP T T w wen e n t y y- y thousand spectators cheered heerd Monday night as Lloyd completed his wire high-wire bicycle bicycle bicycle bi bi- bi- bi cycle act at the Minnesota state fair waved the to-the crowd and his wife started the Uie mechanism that would lower him feet teet to the ground Suddenly the spectators rose to their feet teet screaming aa as lost his grip and arid fell hl hid body flashing in the floodlights floodlight A A. second second sec sec- ond and later his broken body lay beneath beneath beneath be be- neath the twin towers holding his hi high wire Mrs rushed to him He was still alive but died shortly afterwards Dr W. W Amerongen fair physicIan physician physician phy phy- said the performer suffered suffered suffered suf suf- suf- suf a broken neck a fractured skull and numerous other injuries Return 42 42 had been in show business in since e 1925 |