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Show THROW A .DRAIN- PIPE Laborer. Is Shot 300 Feet in Column of Water Washington. July 23. Shot through three hundred feet of 2n-inch drain pipe in a column , of water at high pressure, a laborer on the Gatun dam on the Panama canal lived to tell the tale. Juan Antoline was the human projectile, pro-jectile, according lo (he report made to the canal commission. From a floating platform, where he was keeping keep-ing rubbish In a hydraulic fill from clogging tho drain, he fell Into the pool and was sucked Into the pipe. His companions rushed to the outlet, but Antoline preceded them by some seconds and swam n-shore. |