FIVE ELECTROCUTED.
Tragedy Of High Voltage Wire. HELPEBS LOSE LIVES. (United Service.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 22. A message from Phoenix, Arizona, states that Richard Miller left his home at miduight to post a letter in a corner mailbox. He stumbled over a high voltage wire brought down after a heavy windstorm and his screams brought his wife and son to his assistance, but all three perished. Wesley Miller, another son, sought help and, returning with a neighbour, Carl Meeks, they attempted to draw the bodies from the wire and were themselves electrocuted. The five were dead when the police arrived.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 23 August 1928, Page 7
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