MOUSE TIES UP CITY
NOSE IN ELECTRIC TERMINAL A mouse paralysed tile electricpower system of Johannesburg, South Africa, for three hours at noontime recently, caused a city-wide tie-up and brought injury to five persons. It poked its nose into a terminal box at the central power station. With a flash and a roar, a blinding sheet of flame shot out. Five men nearby were scorched, three of them so badly they were taken to a hospital.
Some 15,000 workers on their way home to luncheon on fast express trams were brought to a standstill. All electrically-driven machinery in the city went dead, and many of the workers living at a distance had to go without their noonday snack altogether.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 430, 11 August 1928, Page 16
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