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Show HIT BY A CAR. N. H. WIIon Mnli Nrm ' rrom It.nitnt litlli. An accident occurred on Third South street between Main and Fml shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon in which M. D. Wilson, an employee of tho Flee d ie Light company narrow ly ese.iped death through an electric car. Wilson wa atriiiging w ire and getting ready to solder n eoniiecllon. Ilo wa pull-lug pull-lug tho stock out of a w ire around thu pale, to reach the Mow pot w hen a ear came speeding around the corner some "i yard distant. The motoriimn fvi denlly failed to detect tho obstruction In his path and shot ahead on si heilule time. Oilier lino men who were present noticed tho Impending tragedy and shoiiti-d for tho man to look out for hi life. Wilson uprallg to hi feet, bill wa loo late to eludo Iho grim finger of fate ami licked up liku o much chaff, was hurled some twenty or thirty feet through the air. lauding violently ou the earth. The men hastened lo his ioiin and assisted him to a mil-goon' olVh e, where itwa iiseei'lained that his arm had boon fractured ami hi hip badly bruised. Thorn I no excuse for ucli earelovines on the. part of carmen. On whipping the corner the car :uj soM-nty -livi! or ono hundred yard from whom the lineman w as employed, and a blind man could havo miielled If lie could not have m-on him. |