S.H. Lofall Succumbs to Fractured Skull Received in Fall From Wharf to Piling.

Fifteem minutes after telling attendandts and physicians at the City Hospital that he was "feeling fine" and would be able to dress and leave the hospital, where he was taken after slipping on the frost-covered planking of the Spokane Grain Company's wharf into the bay, striking his head on a piling as he fell, yesterday morning.  Sophus H. Lofall, a member of the H. Lofall & Co., of Lofall City, four miles from Port Gamble, became unconscious and died within a half an hour.
 
Lofall had received a fracture of the temporal bone.  With the hope that an operation might save his life, artificial repiration was resorted to, but a blood clot pressing on the nerve centers controlling the organs of breathing caused the man's death within a few minutes after the collapse.
 
Lofall was about 25 years old and was the son of Helge Lofall, senior member of the firm.  Miss Anna Lofall, a sister, took charge of the body yesterday.