A Terrible Fall.
A shocking accident occurred at (he new Post Office (says the Sydney Telegraph of June 2). A labourer mured Stephen Sponger was engaged on the high tower now being slowly raised, and at work by himself on the very top of the tower, a distance of 110 ft from the ground; a fellow-labourer named William Veahey was working about loft from the top. At this giddy height Sponger appears to have lost his footing, and plunged headlong through the air to the roadway below. As the tower is surrounded by scaffolding, the poor fellow struck stage after stage in his descent, breaking some of the wood-work, the contact causing bis body to twirl round in the air like a ball. Veahey himself was struck in the eye, and narrowly escaped being thrown to the ground. On the budy being picked up every bone in it appeared to have been broken, a confused mass of flesh remaining. This terrible spectacle was witnessed by a number ot people iu Georgo street, which was crowded at the time.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1700, 29 June 1885, Page 2
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178A Terrible Fall. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1700, 29 June 1885, Page 2
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