| Show FOUR MEN HURT AT NEW SEVENTEENTH WARD WAD CHAPEL CHAPELs Scaffold Collapses and They Fall Fan Twenty Feet Into the Debris Debrs Below Manager Ernest Erest Asper of the As Company is Badly Injured Other Men Have Narrow Narow Escapes How the Accident Happened A distressing accident occurred at Il 1015 10 I 11 this morning mor In nt at It the now Seventeenth ward meetinghouse on First North between West Welt Temple Templo coil and First West Weft streets In which live hIve Ivl men fell fail 20 0 feet teet from a scaffold which sud suddenly ud denly collapsed precipitating them Into Inton u n pile pie of ur lumber and brick below b low That one aie or more lives were not lost U Ii regarded as os little short of ot miraculous lous bus Only On one 01 man nian Inn received serious Injuries InJures and ho Ito will wi be bo laid up for tor probably several leveral weeks eek He Ito Is I Ernest Erest of ot the mill milla mi a 1 son of oC William Asper residing at atSO atso SO Center street The full tul extent of at Mr Ir Aspers Injuries ries rIel are not hot yet et known but he has hal a n badly bad I fractured IRrl arm a 1 fractured hip and a severe seere cut on the left ler thigh be besides besides sides numerous bodily boily bruited bruises Ills l In Injuries injurIes juries are arc ac being attended to nr bT b Drs D C CK CF K F and K E I E K four our were at a t work on tho to thoI I 1 new nel building when the lie scaffold broke Mr Ir An Asper per lied had climbed onto It to mens meas measure ure tire some mould In and It Is h that his additional weight caused d the support to 10 break down dOl Before the men mont could uld 16 themselves the Ihl structure went down with a crash the five men falling In u a heap to the stones atone Ilone and brick Two wo of ot the men amen Immediately Jumped to their feet teel uninjured savo SIW for tor u a afew few Cel painful scratches and amid arll bruises bruIse and rendered what Assistance a th y could to II their less fortunate fellow workmen It was B soon lon observed that Mr Ir Asper Aper wa the most seriously Injured The he patrol wagon gon vas IIO telephoned fur for but bUI butas butas as 11 It i was wan l out of ct commission It I coull not bo be b secured An ambulance was waa telephoned for tor but It foiled felled to put In Inan Inan inan an appearance and the Injured Injure man was placed In a t 1 wagon nail and taken to 10 his home ome Ills Hlo wife wire mind aul mother molher had hall gone Rone down downtown downtown town but hut fortunately his huts father Wil WI William WI liam ilam Asper r lYntS nt at home and medical was ns at II once sent for The young lung man lon suffered great gr t pain but hut buthe buthe he It manfully From roni a 1 tu sit Dr E E Wl Wll WIl i J cox was wn not prepared pr to 10 state lale the ex cx extent tent lent of at the Injury to 10 the patients hip The he left lett arm rm however was ivus badly free frac fractured rao tuell Just jus I below the tho elbow The In Injuries Injuries juries jurle were properly to 10 and 1111 nt last II t accounts the Ihl young man limn resting as ns easily cushy ns as 01 r ro Asper Contractor J 7 K I Me Mc McCInty rc Onty 26 north First Flut W West at street M Merrill of or tho tue stone same Ilme place plue a I carpenter named Wallace WalneR and a n carpenter lr llor whose name minnie was Wa not learned weme on the scaffold when It Jt t tell fell rel Mr r received numerous elite cuts and bruises Although no Ito 10 bon s were Iee broken h I he was compelled to go io o home medical attention wits was Wil given ghI him himM himM M Merrill and Wallace Wailace rl ele minor bruises ls The Thi other man inami did not wall halt al to 10 wounds If it he lout any but hut hurried oft off or home Tim The 10 rest of or the men len employed on nil tho tue tHI building could not give an nn account of ot atthe the accident as It happened so II quick ly 1 I They hey hearth heard hOil the crash run reli to ill the Injured d At Al first It 11 feared that one man hud hlll b n killed as IM there VI cOI blood lost l t and young g gAdler Adler Aper was unable to move mu from where h he full |
