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Description: One Killed, One Fatally Injured in Scaffold Break
Date: March 31 1883Newspaper published in: Opelousas, LA
Source: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Page/Column: Page 2, Column 2
TOPICS OF THE DAY
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News from Everywhere
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
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THE other day a rope sustaining a swinging scaffold, on which three men were engaged in painting the side of a large elevator at Peoria, Ill., broke and Jacob Wattenschwuller was killed and Joseph Vail fatally hurt. R. O. Shupp caught the rope and escaped injury.