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Show IMPALED ON IRON HOOK Lineman Will Recover Despite Terrible Injuries In-juries He Suffered. WATERBURT. Conn, Aug. 4. Lineman Line-man Truman Judson of the Southern New England Telephone company fell while at work on a pole forty feet high and was caught twenty feet from the ground by an iron hook through his Jaw. After hanging thus a short time the flesh tore and he fell to the ground. Although he, has concussion of the brain, a broken jaw, a lacerated scalp and fractured ribs, the physicians say he will recover. A man on top of the pole who saw his comrade Impaled, fainted at the sight and was saved by the straps which held him to the crossbars. |