CRASH TO DEATH
MAN FALLS ON A TRAIN. Falling 100 ft from the roof of a building iu London, a man recently struck the roof of a passing train on tho ■■ Metropolitan Railway, then bounced several feet up before falling on the live rail. Men working in tho sheds near the railway line saw tho man fall. At first, however, they thought it was a sack falling through the air. On rushing up to the spot, however, they were horrified to find that it was a man. He was pulled away from tho rail and taken on a stretcher to a hospital, where lie was found to be dead. Men at work in a room ou the toji floor of a building smv the man appear on tbo flat roof outside the window, stand ou the coping stone for a few moments, and then crash down below.
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 5
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147CRASH TO DEATH Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 5
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