Workman's Condition Called Poor After Fall from Yard Tree Monday

Hurricane Hazel indirectly claimed another casualty Monday afternoon when an inexperienced workman, James Swain (shown on stretcher, above) fell 22 feet from a Yard tree, which he was mending after storm damage.

Swain, 46, who had been employed as an arborist for less than a week, plunged to the ground from the first branch of an elm facing University Hall. He suffered brain lacerations and two fractures in the left leg.

He was placed on the danger list at Cambridge City Hospital, and was under neuro-surgical observation last night. Hospital authorities described his condition as poor.

The injured workman had just stepped from a ladder when his foot slipped on the icy bark. Witnesses said that he landed on his feet.