Son of Frederick Bidlack & Matilda C. Bailey.
Married:
1-Marie Hughes 26 May 1941 Franklin Co., OH
2-Icie Dora (Milam) [Anderson] [Jobe] [Jordan]
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The Charleroi Mail (Charleroi, Pennsylvania) pub. 09 Feb 1942, p.4
STEEPLEJACK FURNISHES BLOW-BY-BLOW ON FALL
COLUMBUS, O. -(UP) - A man who "should be dead" has lived to tell the story of his 100-foot fall from a chimney.
Ersel bidlack was plying his trade as a steeplejack high atop a hospital chimney when his safety rope snapped. Four seconds later he was on the ground.
Here is Ersel's second-by-second account:
1st second: "I yelled, 'Get out of the way!'"
2nd second: "I kicked, trying to get out beyond the concrete and fall in the shrubbery."
3rd second: Kicked some more
4th second: A two-point landing - on the concrete.
Ersel plummeted directly down. Never spinning, never turning, he landed on his heels and fell forward. When he was taken into the emergency room at the hospital, doctors counted 11 fractures in his feet and leg bones.
"I know I should be dead," Ersel says, "but as soon as these old feet get well, I'll be back on the job. I like the work and it pays good money."
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Married:
1-Marie Hughes 26 May 1941 Franklin Co., OH
2-Icie Dora (Milam) [Anderson] [Jobe] [Jordan]
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The Charleroi Mail (Charleroi, Pennsylvania) pub. 09 Feb 1942, p.4
STEEPLEJACK FURNISHES BLOW-BY-BLOW ON FALL
COLUMBUS, O. -(UP) - A man who "should be dead" has lived to tell the story of his 100-foot fall from a chimney.
Ersel bidlack was plying his trade as a steeplejack high atop a hospital chimney when his safety rope snapped. Four seconds later he was on the ground.
Here is Ersel's second-by-second account:
1st second: "I yelled, 'Get out of the way!'"
2nd second: "I kicked, trying to get out beyond the concrete and fall in the shrubbery."
3rd second: Kicked some more
4th second: A two-point landing - on the concrete.
Ersel plummeted directly down. Never spinning, never turning, he landed on his heels and fell forward. When he was taken into the emergency room at the hospital, doctors counted 11 fractures in his feet and leg bones.
"I know I should be dead," Ersel says, "but as soon as these old feet get well, I'll be back on the job. I like the work and it pays good money."
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Son of Frederick Bidlack & Matilda C. Bailey.
Married:
1-Marie Hughes 26 May 1941 Franklin Co., OH
2-Icie Dora (Milam) [Anderson] [Jobe] [Jordan]
___________________________________________
The Charleroi Mail (Charleroi, Pennsylvania) pub. 09 Feb 1942, p.4
STEEPLEJACK FURNISHES BLOW-BY-BLOW ON FALL
COLUMBUS, O. -(UP) - A man who "should be dead" has lived to tell the story of his 100-foot fall from a chimney.
Ersel bidlack was plying his trade as a steeplejack high atop a hospital chimney when his safety rope snapped. Four seconds later he was on the ground.
Here is Ersel's second-by-second account:
1st second: "I yelled, 'Get out of the way!'"
2nd second: "I kicked, trying to get out beyond the concrete and fall in the shrubbery."
3rd second: Kicked some more
4th second: A two-point landing - on the concrete.
Ersel plummeted directly down. Never spinning, never turning, he landed on his heels and fell forward. When he was taken into the emergency room at the hospital, doctors counted 11 fractures in his feet and leg bones.
"I know I should be dead," Ersel says, "but as soon as these old feet get well, I'll be back on the job. I like the work and it pays good money."
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Married:
1-Marie Hughes 26 May 1941 Franklin Co., OH
2-Icie Dora (Milam) [Anderson] [Jobe] [Jordan]
___________________________________________
The Charleroi Mail (Charleroi, Pennsylvania) pub. 09 Feb 1942, p.4
STEEPLEJACK FURNISHES BLOW-BY-BLOW ON FALL
COLUMBUS, O. -(UP) - A man who "should be dead" has lived to tell the story of his 100-foot fall from a chimney.
Ersel bidlack was plying his trade as a steeplejack high atop a hospital chimney when his safety rope snapped. Four seconds later he was on the ground.
Here is Ersel's second-by-second account:
1st second: "I yelled, 'Get out of the way!'"
2nd second: "I kicked, trying to get out beyond the concrete and fall in the shrubbery."
3rd second: Kicked some more
4th second: A two-point landing - on the concrete.
Ersel plummeted directly down. Never spinning, never turning, he landed on his heels and fell forward. When he was taken into the emergency room at the hospital, doctors counted 11 fractures in his feet and leg bones.
"I know I should be dead," Ersel says, "but as soon as these old feet get well, I'll be back on the job. I like the work and it pays good money."
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