Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — FATAL FALL FROM SCAFFOLD. [ARTICLE]

FATAL FALL FROM SCAFFOLD.

Farmer’s Neck Broken When He Strikes on Head and Shoulders. Rochester, Ind., Jn. 4.- -Sherman j Manning, a prosperous farmer ofl Fulton county, was accidently killed at his home east of here to-day, by falling from a scaffold. His neck was broken. He was on a platform thirty-five feet high, working around a silo, when he lost his balance, fell and struck on his head and shoulders. He died twenty'minutes . later, Mr. Manning was forty-one years old and leaves his parents, five sistbrs and three brothers.