THREE DISASTERS
REPORTED FROM RUSSIA.
FIFTEEN MEN ELECTROCUTED
NINETEEN PEOPLE DROWNED.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
Received 11.20 a.m.' to-day. ./iv MOSCOW, May 20. Three mishaps, attended by fatalities, are reported. Fifteen men were electrocuted owing to a piece of machinery in 'some works near Moscow fouling an overhead high tension cable.
Nineteen persons were drowned through the sinking of a ferry boat on the river Sulak, near Petrovaky Two passengers, one on the staff of the Pravda, were killed and the mechanic seriously injured through the crashing of an airship on the MoscowTiflis line near Khartoum.-—Reuter. 2
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1926, Page 5
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