A TOWN IN DARKNESS.
Gore woe plunged io darkness the other night by three wild ducks. The birds were flying low and struck the electric light wires, bringing the positive and negative poles in contact with each other. A " short circuit" was the result, and all lights in the
town went out. The two wire* fuied and fell across each other on to the barbed wire fence enclosiug tile railway garden, and fiaahfts of vivid preen light were seen darling in all directions for a few seconds. Repairs were speedily effected.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9298, 26 December 1895, Page 5
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