Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1909 — INAUGURAL CASUALTY [ARTICLE]

INAUGURAL CASUALTY

Carpenter Falls to Death From Scaffold In Ball Room. Washington, March 2.—ln the pension building where the inaugural ball ie to be held. E. Melville Swann, a carpenter, fell a distance of fifteen feet from a scaffold, striking his head on the stone floor below. His skull was fractured and he died. A part of the inaugural decorations went up tn flames when the bunting on the front of the Regent hotel on Pennsylvania avenue caught fire. No damage was done to the building.