Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1901 — A Boy’s Bad Fall. [ARTICLE]

A Boy’s Bad Fall.

Cecil Banes, 12 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Banes, is suffering from a severe cut on the forehead and is bruised more or less all over his body as the result of a fall from the west arch of the Iroquois river bridge t at Milroy street, last Friday afternoon. In company with another boy of about the same age, he was playing at the bridge and walking over the tolerably steep and narrow arch that extends from bank to bank of the river. He was almost in the center of the arch when he became dizzy and toppled over, falling on the side away from the bridge and at a distance from the river bottom of about 24 feet. He struck a / beam and then an iron brace and thus greatly broke the force of the fall, but still struck the stone bed of the river with much force. Dr. Berkley was called and found the cut on his forehead apparently his worst injury, unless an internal injury developes, which is not anticipated. But the boy will be pretty sick and sore for a number of daye, at best. That he was not killed outright, is a marvel. This accident ought to serve as a serious warning to venturesome bridge-climbing boys, but like similar accidents everywhere it will soon be forgotten.