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Show FLASHLIGHT SHUTS OFF CITY'S POWER DBS MOINES. Iowa. Aug. 31 An amateur photographer's flashlight i.ow.b r. coming in cntuct with the main feed rolls at ti'o Dts Mollies Electric company, caused a ort circuit cir-cuit Which resulted In a complete j hut. low n of electric light and powor in the citj between -t and r p clock cdneday a'f. rnoon. Tho phbtogrcpher had been gi n permission to visit the piani. Hel paused to take a plctnrr near the. feedlnc Uncs which supply ths downtown down-town district, and allowed his clash to tomh the oolls. There was a blinding crash, he was thrown to the floor, and a short Cjrcull was created which put out every light and -topped every .-levator in the business district. I'ax'enrci caugbt in elevators stopped stop-ped between floors were taken put by means of ladders. The photographer was uninjured. |