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Show t wis , ENGINEER'S LIFE SAVED BL PLANK Salt Lake, Aug. 29 Only the fact that his fall was broken by striking a plank and that he lauded In three fcot of water prevented Joseph Jon- ecu, engineer In charge of the work Jfon the dam of the Pluto reclamation I project, from being killed Friday i morning. Ho fell twenty feet from a : ladder to the bottom of the coro trench of the dam. Fortunately the engineer escaped ' without a broken bone, thoirgh he was ' o badly hruisod he had to come to Salt Lake and Is now under medical care. j The accident was witnessed by , members'of the state land board, who i were at the, dam on a tip of inspec-i inspec-i tlon, and thc members of the board i I thought the engineer had 'been "kijled ' I until ho emerged from the water, reassuring 'them that ho was not seriously ser-iously hurt, r Mr. Jensen was leading (ho way for tho members of the board to tth'o bottom of thc biff trerich that; has been dug for the laying of the con- ; creto coro of tho big dam. Water i had gotten into the trdnch In the J solid rock and caused the ladder lead- i ins to the bottom to float. The engineer en-gineer stepped upon it and It sank. throwing him off his balance Ho was about twenty feet above the , rocks, but In his fall struck a largo . board across the cut, which hroke . his fall. " r on i |