STARTLING ACCIDENT.
[by telegraph.] (Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Saturday. A. startling accident happened just after mid-day. A telegraph lineman was repairing a wire just opposite W. and 6, Turnbull k Co.'s store, Gus» torn House Quay, when a bolt iii the crossbar, near the top of the telegraph pole, against which Ins ladder was resting, broke, and the man was thrown to the ground violently. The height was considerable, and ho was picked up apparently dead. His neck most likely is broken. He is a single 4t man named Peter flheyne. A deviation of only two feet would have thrown the man orer the Reclamation edge into water, where he would have escaped injury altogether.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4019, 23 January 1892, Page 3
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115STARTLING ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4019, 23 January 1892, Page 3
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