TWO REMARKABLE ACCIDENTS
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Man's Beard Caught In Bicycle Crank ELEPHANT'S FALL
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(Eeceived 29, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 28. Two extraordinary accidents are reported. An elderly man was adjusting hls bicycle chain on a lonely road near Holstead, Denmark, when his beard becamo entangled in the crank and be waa unable to free himself. Another cyclist met hira crawling backwards dragging the bicyle, and together they carried the bicycle until they met a man with a sharp knife who severed tbe beard. The second occurred at Galcutta. A five and a-half ton elephant, on whieh a raahout was mounted, fell from tho sling in whieh it was being loaded on to a ship The elephant crashed to the wharf, eprattg up and began to run, scattering & terrified crowd. The Mahont miraoulously escaped serions injury. He declares that the elephant saved his life by deliberately rolling away from hina.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 5
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