Some of the telephone and telegraph oles had.sufferod in the same way. On ribbling Well Road a wito fell on Friday night, and a ricsha coolie suffered electrocution. He became entangled in the wite and incautiously putting his hand on it was prisonered completely. The foreigners who were with him ascertained that a mackintosh coat would act as a non-conductor and succeeded in freeing the native who pulled himself together, bolted a few yards, and as the foreigners thought escaped. He fell dead, however, a short distance away. A foreign constable and some Sikhs wore subsequently put on duty to warn passers-by till the dangerous wire could be removed.
Long after the water had subsided from the streets the low-lying Recreation Ground maintained its temporary resemblance to the Welsh Harp. The mat shelter for carriages and ricshas, had tumbled down, and also the mat roof of the swimming bath, giving it a most
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