Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — High Diving Accident At Monticello. [ARTICLE]

High Diving Accident At Monticello.

The Monticello Carnival was the scene of what will probably prove a fatal accident, Toesday night. A party who was advertised as a woman, but was a man in woman’s attire made a leap from the top of the court house, a distance of 110 feet. Toe landing was in a net, but the net was uo gocd, and the diver broke through it and struck the cement walk with terrible force. There is but little hope for the man’s recovery.