Edward Joy, foreman, and two men who were helping him build the smokestack for the University’s new power house, had a narrow escape from falling to their death late Tuesday afternoon. As they stood on their scaffold 100 feet from the ground, something went wrong with the valve of the hoisting engine. The hoist, with a rub of brick on it, did not stop where it was supposed to, but went right on up. It tore away not only part of the scaffold but also three or four feet of the brickwork. The men had no time to think, but the instinct that makes a man clutch at the nearest object saved them. They clung to the brick wall that still held firm, were able to regain a foothold on what was left of the scaffold, and at last reached the ground, none of them seriously hurt.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1925
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