ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
BOY ELECTROCUTED
(Per Press Association.) . STRATFORD. May 19. Tl}o heavy wind yesterday dislodged an; electric light wire, whichining a few feet i rprn. the ground. When the linesmen went to repair it, they found the dead Body of a boy named-Henry W.el> berly, nine and a half years old. with his hands grasping the wire. Death must have been instantaneous. «-
WATERSIDE WORKER INJURED
TIMARU
May 19
A waterside worker named A. K. Toogood, aged 28, whilst employed rcmoviiifz hatclies aboard the Westmeath this evening, stepped back upon one partly removed and fell eleven feet to the next 000k, striking a.cross beam with ,h:s l>H^k as ho tell. Re_wa«\ removed to the hospital with an injured back.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20085, 20 May 1914, Page 5
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119ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20085, 20 May 1914, Page 5
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