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Show PEDESTRIAN FALLS INTO EXCAVATION John Lane was painfully Injured last night by falling into an oxcava-tlon oxcava-tlon for a building, just south of Twentv-fifth street on Wall avenue. After "falling into the holo, ho laid there for nearly two hours, before a passerby heard his calls for aid and went to his assistance. Ho was helped help-ed out of tho hole and his rescuer called cal-led tho police department so that he might have "first aid." He was taken to the station and the city physician attended his injuries, the principal ono being a severely twisted kneo cap, Lane explained to tho police that he was walking down Wall avenue and stepped to the edge of the sidewalk and slipped Into the hole. The pollco investigated the matter and founfl that the lights that had been placel along the edge of the excavation had gono out. |