Two Men Electrocuted In Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Jan. 21. Two men were killed and two injured when a pole erector owned by the Electricity Trust made contact with a 7000-volt overhead wire at Portland. The erector was being towed by another vehicle with a steel rope when the elevated boom touched an overhead wire.
Of four men handling the tow-rope two were killed instantly and the others were severely burned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22851, 22 January 1949, Page 5
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