A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 8. A terrible experience happened at Kogarah to a telephone line repairer named Wilson. He was working at the top of a pole amidst a network of wires outside the |iOsf. office, when by some meatis a. can ot paraffin which he was using burst into tlarnes and enveloped liim. Ho became entangled in the wires, and was hung up by the feet for three minutes, and their fell through the network, miraculously catching the bottom wire and holding on. A kddeT was hoisted, and Wilson got halfway down ami then fell heavily. His clothes were burnt, off Idm. He is in the hospital, and .still alive. The firo destroyed the polo and disorganised the telephone service.
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Evening Star, Issue 12965, 9 November 1906, Page 6
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126A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE Evening Star, Issue 12965, 9 November 1906, Page 6
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