Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1910 — Logansport Brick Mason Hurt When Scaffolding Gave Way. [ARTICLE]

Logansport Brick Mason Hurt When Scaffolding Gave Way.

Chas. Etmeier, of Logansport, a brick mason employed on the new house for the Catholic pastor, suffered a severe scalp wound and other bruises when a scaffold on which he was standing gave way. William Medland, another workman : was standing neaV him and Jim Wadsworth, the mortar mixer, had just carried a hod of mortar "to> Etmeier when the scaffold gave way. Medland fell backward and alighted on a strong part of the scaffold. Wadsworth fell a short distance and caught on the lower scaffold but Etmeier fell all the way to the ground and several brick fell with him, one striking him on the head and inflicting a wound that took several stitches to close up. His right arm was slightly sprained and he was bruised up somewhat all over by the fall, a distance of about 16 feet.