SHOCK FROM POWER LINE.
WORKMEN AND CHILD SUFFER SEVERE BURNS RECEIVED, [BX TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MARTON, Friday. An accident which might easily have ended fatally occurred near the Wanganui-Rangitikei Power Board substation at Marton yesterday, as a result of which W. A. Voice and H. S. Roulston, linesmen, and a two-year-old boy named Fowler, received severo burns. The men were engaged running out a low-tension wire, which caught the branch of a tree and swung into contact with a high-power line. Both men were rendered unconscious. The child Fowler, who was playing near-by, was struck by a falling wire and severely burned on the leg and thigh. Voice and lloulston have recovered, but are suffering from extensive burns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19508, 11 December 1926, Page 10
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118SHOCK FROM POWER LINE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19508, 11 December 1926, Page 10
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