SCREAMS OF AGONY
MAN ON POWER LINJE.
■A NARROW ESCAPE,
Press Association—-Copyright THAMES, This Day.
An, etstitaordinary occurrence bappenedi a$ "Wesleyan Valley about a mile from Thames yesterday evening, when a.youth, Roderick Fraser Langfordl, wag found! hanging on an electric power line 'carrying only four hundred volts, .'thi" the same post wag a' lirfe 'carrying eleven thousand volts, but fortunately the fuse had blown out further up the line, otherwise the menwould have been killed. After forty-five minutes he was-re-leased!, btrt his screams of agony at-tracted'a--crowd of people wJioi feared to touch bim. He wa 8 taken to Hospital, where, he -has now' recovered consciousness.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 3 July 1928, Page 6
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