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The Deadly Wires

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
November
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

NBW Yoi:k, Nov. 5.- A fallen telephone wire, eonnected in scnie way with an electric-light current abovo, lay across the Fourth avenue street-car track. A horse that Btepped on it was strioken down and slowly burned to a crisp, its body emitting sparks oí flre. The driver of the wagon the horse was drawing attempted to raise the animal, and was knocked into the gutter by the shock he received. A sergeant of polico, who was searohing for the wire, camo into contact with it and received a severe shock.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register