Lions Eat Laborers.
According to St. George Whitehouse, the manager and chief engineer of the Uganda railway, with the exception of a few unimportant temporary bridges which will have to be replaced by steel structures, all being within 30 miles of the. lake terminus, the line from Mombasa to Psrt Florence is 'completed. Trains now run through without change of carriage from the sea to the •heart of Africa, a distance of 584 miles. The same gentleman ? discussing the difficulties which have to be surmounted, says: Not the least of these has been caused -by the wild animals along the line. Lions very seriously interfered with the wort of construction and at mile 132 once nearly brought work to a standstill. No fewer than 27 railway employes have been carried off by lions, | and probably there are more of whom j there is no record.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 46, 14 June 1903, Page 7
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145Lions Eat Laborers. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 46, 14 June 1903, Page 7
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