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Peculiar Double Fatality

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
September
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A yery strange doublé fatality.ocsurrecT at the World building at Oleveand. Three men were on a ladder )lacing a sign at the top of the fifth story. The rope slipped and the ladder .urned over. Alois Zechmeister feil and in his descent struck John Wicksen who was passing breaking Wickson's back and both legs. He uannot ive. Zechmeister was instantly killed. Che other two men on the ladder escaped by a miracle. Lawrence Cronenberg's feet caught in the rope, and ie hung suspended over the pavement, ïead downward, until rescued. The other man grabbed the cornice at the op of the building and worked his way around to a fire escape. Joshua Tiller, Albert Seifert and )scar Voorhees, striking laborers on .he waterworks trench at Wapakoneta, ). , attempted to interfere with some íen who had taken their places, a ight foliowed and all three vvere shot nd Tilltyer died. Several others evere sericusly injured. London: A dispatch f rom Shanghai ays th$ Li Ilungf Chang had n audietne with the emperor and as a onsequetce will remain in Pekín as mperial caaneellor. Wang'-Wen-Shoo ías beeu íiominated as viceroy of the rovince jf Chi-Li, which office Lí itaxg Chí jg formerly b.elá.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News