AMERICAN TRAGEDIES.
PUMPING STATION COLLAPSES. SIX KILLED; 30 INJURED. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRES-S ASSOCIATION. Received July 1, 12.50 p.m. NEW YORK, June 30. At Buffalo six persons were killed and 30 injured by the collapse of a pumping station. The victims were machinists at work.
PAINTER'S TERRIBLE PLIGHT.
Received July 1, 12.50 p.m. NEW YORK, June 30
At Pittsburg a painter named Stack, from a height of 250 feet above the ground, suspended by a burning rope and with his clothes afire, descended hand under hand. He was terribly burnt.
He had lighted a cigarette and the lighted match fell into his bucket of naphtha and oil.
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Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1911, Page 5
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