Show eight story fall not fatal alexander haslett a work on the steel frames of a modern building while adjusting a rope on an elevator slipped and fell eight stories through a shaft death seemed certain there was waa nothing between betheen bet veen hin and the brick pavement 70 feet below two stories down there was a board projecting ho he grabbed for foe the board and caught it ho he could not hold it but he broke the strength of his fall for or two stories the impetus threw hini him into a somersault but as he turned the fourth story he grabbed a board and again broke his fall this happened twice lee in the few in which he shot like a bullet past story after story ile he struck the ground but he ha had only a slight blight injury to hla his skull neither arms nor legs were broken philadelphia press |