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Show SCAFFOLD COLLAP8ES; THREE MEN INJURED American Fork, Nov, IG. Two men were seriously Injured and another badly "bruised yesterday afternoon when a scaffold in the gymnasium of the new high school building of the new high school building hero collapsed col-lapsed and threw the mqn working on It to tho floor below. The men were working on the ceiling of the new gym when the heavy planks, holding them gave way, precipitating them to the floor, with the scaffold on top of them. Henry Erickeon of Lehi suffered severe bruises about the head and a compound fracture of the ankle. He was taken to Lehi in an automobile. Doctors foar that It will bo ucccs-Bary ucccs-Bary to amputatp the foot. Albert Ludlow of Spanish Fork" received re-ceived what may prove fatal Inju- nes. One of tho heavy timbers struck him on his spine, paralyzing the lower low-er part of liis body He was taken to his home in Spanish Fork in a serious se-rious condition. John Buckley escaped more fortu-uatoly fortu-uatoly than the other two. lie suffered suf-fered a number of painful though not' serious bruises. He was nblo to re- turn lo work a short lime after tho accident. lle Is a resident of Prove. |