ESCAPE FROM DEATH
BUT SEVERELY BURNED. TWO LINESMEN AND A CHILD. Per Press Association. MAIITON, Dec. 10. An accident which might easily have ended fatally occurred near the Wa-nganui-Rangitikei Power Board’s substation at Marton yesterday, as a result of which W. A. Voice and H. S. Roulston, linesmen, and a two-year-old boy named Fowler received severe burns. The men were engaged in running out a low-tension wire, which caught a branch of a tree and swung into contact with a high-power line. Both were rendered unconscious. The child, Fowler, who was playing nearby, was struck by a falling wire and was severely burned on tho leg and thigh. Voice and Roulston recovered from tho shock and are now suffering from extensive burns.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 8
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122ESCAPE FROM DEATH Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 8
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