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Show WORKMEN KILLED - . IN FREAK MISHAP j- PORTLAND, or; Mitre 5. David Peterson, a city laborer, met almost 4 instant death here today by a freak j accident wHen hia Jaw and neck wre broken by a "boosting stick" that Tew i up and struck him with th force of a thunderbolt. Peterson- was helping roll a 1100 1 . pound iron pip when one end slipped from the grasp of another workman, caught the point of Peteraon'a "boosting "boost-ing stick" and flipped it through the sir to his Jaw. - .Velersoa died on th way to the hospital. - |