SCAFFOLDING BREAKS.
200 WORKMEN PRECIPITATED
INTO A RIVER
(United Pross Association—Cnnvric'nt.}
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 8
Ice broke a wooden scaffolding on a now railway bridgo over the Volga river, near Kazan.
- Two hundred workmen were precipitated into the river.
Four bodies were recovered
Tho ice-breakers are seeking for tho survivors, hoping that they clambered on to ice-floes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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