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Show I PITER FALLS y- OFF SCAFFOLD AT FIELD HOTEL Awning Breaks Force of. Tumble and 0. D. Setser Escapes Serious Injury O. D. Sctscr. whoae spectacular fall from tha Rood hotel building yesterday yester-day horrlflod hundreds of spectators In til a city hall park. Is at tho hoBptlal today and hlR condition Is good, according ac-cording to reports received this morning. morn-ing. Setcr, 2-t years old, was as-luting Wllllum Cunnltigham In painting tho Rood hotol. Tho nion were working on a scaffold, about fifty feet above the ground on the west aide of tho building. build-ing. Without, warning, a ropo supporting support-ing tho scaffolding gave way, precipitating precipi-tating Setser from tho scaffold. Cunningham Cun-ningham leaped and uelzcd a ropo dangling from tho roof and hung sus-pondod sus-pondod until ho managed to cntor one A of tho third story windows. j Setaor crashed towards tho cement pavement below. Ills fall was lntcr-, lntcr-, ruptod when he struck tho center of ' don State bank, and the force of his fall tore tho awning from Its mooring. Together, ho and the awning continued on tholr downward ccrcor, until tho pavement wns reached. A two gallon quart of blood red paint had struck tho sidewalk before b'aUar rolled from the awning. Ho fell In the paint and shudders of horror shook bystanders, who supposed that the man had boon bnilsod and crushed, lie was covered from head to foot with the dull red pigment. S. C. Mills, who had a contract for the work which the men were doing, rushed Sotser to the hospifal. Dr. H. W. Nelson attended tho Injured man. That Setser suffered no broken bones from his fall Is looked upon as marvelous. It Is not known whether or not ho sustained internal Injuries. oo |