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TOUCHED LIVE WIRE

[Welland Tribune March 31, 1905]

On Wednesday afternoon a lineman in the  employ of the  Bell Telephone Company, named Daniel McKinnon, who boarded at  Mr Nolan’s on  St Clair  avenue, who instantly killed while stringing wires on  Ferry street, near the big Brundage bar.
The unfortunate man came  in contact with a live wire ad received the full voltage.

He has been in the employ of the company for almost 2 years and was a fine specimen of manhood The body was taken to  Morse & Sons undertaking establishment.

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