Show HUGE BEAM FALLS NARROWLY MISSING TWO MEN HEN BENEATH Two men nen working on the new Railroad Exchange building Main and Third South streets shortly 0 before noon today narrowly w escaped p serious injuries j rr or horrible hor r death by the slipping of t a steel beam weighing four tour tons By means o of a a. derrick said to have been much too light the steel was hoisted to an upright position The foreman had been warned by lookers on that the hoisting hoist holst Ing apparatus was not strong enough to bear the strain Without further warning the hoist toppled toppled toppled top- top pled over swinging the huge truss to the right and missing the two men by only a fraction traction of ot an Inch inci One man climbing the derrick at th the time Jumped In time timeto to save his life lICe In falling to the basement the steel beam struck three others t ra already KI in fl place knocking them from their fastenings and causing them to sag to the ground A stout pier constructed o of brick and steel was also damaged |