TRAGEDY AT MIDNIGHT.
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FIVE ELECTROCUTED.
MAN FELL OVER LIVE WIRE. FOUR RESCUERS MEET DEATH. vUiuttd Preao .VaaociaLion—By Electric■ Xeitgiupi, Copyright.) —United Service). Received 11.35 a.m. to-day. vAiNv.ULiVii.it, Aliy. 22. A message from idiuemx (Arizona) states that Richard Mihar leit ins home at midnight to post a letter in **» corner eiuieoa. .irjo sLuiuojeu ovoi a high voitage wire triiiui mm 'ueu. brought down after a heavy windstorm. His screams brought his wife and son to his assistance, but all three perished. Wesley Miller, anotner son, sougnt heip, returning with a neighbour named Carl Meeks. They attempted to draw the bodies from the wire, and were themselves electrocuted. The five were dead when the police arrived.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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