Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — Fearful Accident. [ARTICLE]

Fearful Accident.

A terrible accident recently occurred at a Rochester brewery, which resulted in the probably fatal injury of two men and the very serious injury of five others. A number of workmen were at work on a scaffold against a newly-laid wall, when a portion of the wall gave way, carrying with it the scaffolding on which the men were working. Five of the twelve men at work contrived to save themselves by jumping on the portions of the north wall that were not torn away. Seven of them were carried down with the scaffolding, bricks, mortar and trusses, the distance of thirtysix feet to the ground floor below. One of them was plunged into a deep cellar, thirty-six feet lower still, his entire fall being, therefore, about seventy-two feet. Strange to say, however, he was not so badly injured as some of his companions, and there is hope of his recovery. Two others received injuries from which they died, while the remaining four were terribly bruised, but will probably recover. ’ Cotton factories and cotton-seed mills are constantly ihcregging ip jhe South. > " l ~' til