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o workers at Dallas building site
United Press International
ALLAS — A huge mecha-
crane perched on the
nd floor of a high-rise con-
ction site plummeted to the
a while Ilih UIK * ^ e dnesday and injured
east two workers.
1 l ^ Baylor Medical Center
would be a desman identified one of the
:ims as Robert McMiller, 26,
Mr. Nixonm 1 said he may have fractures,
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The other victim, identified as
Joseph Smith, 34, was listed in
fair condition at Parkland Hos
pital.
“There is no further threat to
the public,” said police spokes
man Ed Spencer shortly after
the 10:10 a.m. accident.
Several blocks near Jackson
and Akard streets near down
town were closed, police said.
Lowell Jones, an architect
whose office looks onto the con
struction site from where the
crane fell, said he was sitting at
his desk when he heard a crash.
The crane was being used to
erect a steel skeleton for South
western Bell’s administrative
headquarters, which will even
tually rise 37 stories, company
officials said.
“It looks like one of the cranes
just evidently gave way or the
load it was picking up was too
heavy and caused it to topple
over,” he said.
“That whole assembly has fal
len down to the level below and
is laying at an angle.”
Joe McNamara, spokesman
for Southwestern Bell, said the
crane fell about 25 feet.
[lousing starts in Houston increase
espite national building downturn
United Press International
IOUSTON — The number
thousing starts in Houston is
tthe rise with more than 8,200
r homes under construction,
stark contrast to the national
officials said
Wednesday.
The Greater Houston Buil
ders Association reported the
number of new homes under
construction during the second
quarter of this year has surpas
sed the record of 7,800 starts for
the first quarter of 1982. Offi
cials expect more than 35,000
houses to be built this year in the
city.
“Because of the brisk de
mand out there,” said home
builder Doyle Stuckey, “our
business has been quite good for
the second quarter.”
Sales of new homes also in
creased during the second quar
ter of the year, with more than
7,300 units sold.
Trapeze
acrobat
hurt in fall
United Press International
DALLAS — A member of a
Ringling Bros, and Barnum &
Bailey Circus family trapeze act
was hospitalized in stable condi
tion Wednesday with injuries he
suffered in an aerial collision
with his father.
A spokeswoman for Baylor
Medical Center said she could
release no other information on
Gino Farfan, 18, pending a
statement by the circus later
today.
And true to circus tradition,
the accident did not stop the
show Tuesday night, a circus
spokesman said.
Farfan lost his grip on the bar
attempting a triple and a half
somersault and smashed head
long into his father, Armando
Farfan, 36, who was catching on
the other trapeze.
Armando Farfan, who per
forms with his son and wife,
Anna, as the Flying Farfan
Trapeze Act, did not appear to
be injured and climbed down to
assist his son.
Witnesses among the 16,000
people attending the opening
night of the circus at Reunion
Arena said the young Farfan fell
bleeding and unconscious onto
the protective net. He was car
ried from Reunion Arena by
stretcher and rushed to Baylor
Medical Center.
After the accident, the lights
above the trapeze were dimmed
and the next act continued on
the other side of the arena as
paramedics helped the fallen
acrobat.
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