Miss Beauford Hughes

Girls Falls 160 Ft. Off Cliff and Lives

Article taken from The Lancaster Daily Eagle, September 22, 1927

Portsmouth, O., Sept.28. - (AP) - Miss Beauford Hughe, 16 yearold Wheelersburg High School girl, fell 160 feet off a cliff at Franklin furnace Wednesday morning and lives to tell of her experience. She was taken unconscious from the top of a tree where she landed. It is feared her back is broken. Miss Hughes daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hughes of Wheelersburg, near here and a member of the Wheelersburg high school basketball team was standing on the top of the Cliff looking over the edge when she became dizzy and lost her balance.