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Show Flrehook Brings Death. An engine flrehook that he carried over his shoulder caused the death by electric shock of Charles E. Spayde, a fireman on the New Haven railroad, near New York city. Spayde, whose home was in New Haven, was . firing on a freight train bound for Boston. Passing through New Rochelle the flrehook he had been using us-ing tumbled out of the engine. The train was running very slowly and he leaped off and picked up the rod. Climbing on a car he walked toward the tender, carrying the rod on his shoulder. He forgot about the overhead over-head wires, heavily charged. The rod touched one of them and the current shot through his body, killing him instantly. in-stantly. He rolled from the car to the tracks and the train cut off his legs. Railroad men who ran up found his clothing on fire, ignited by the electricity. elec-tricity. The coroner found the upper part of Spayde's body had been burned almost black. |