CURIOUS ELECTRIC ACCIDENT.
A peculiar accident has occurred at Hamburg. It seems that the wire* of an electric tramway, which are suspended across a certain, thoroughfare, suddenly broke, and a piece of wire fell on to an iron bar in front of the window of a cocoa-room. The electric current must thence have been conducted through the iron construction into the rx>om itself. Here it had the effect of lightning. Reports like pistol shots were heard, and several persons were injured by electric shocks. "A panic ensued, and several ladies fainted with fright.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10239, 7 January 1899, Page 7
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