HIGH VOLTAGE WIRE
MAN’S FATAL .ENCOUNTER
FOUR RESCUERS ELECTROCUTED.
TRAGEDY IN ARIZONA.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Service.) Received August 23, 11.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 22.
A message from Phoenix, Arizona, states that a man named Richard Miller, who left home at midnight to post a lotter at a mailbox on the corner of a street stumbled over - a high voltage wire that had been brought down after a heavy windstorm. His screams brought his wife and a son to his assistance, but all three perished. Wesley Miller, another son, went for help and returned 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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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 227, 23 August 1928, Page 7
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