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Show A DEADLY TELEPHONE WIRE. It Kills a Horse Belonging to ylohn Tit-comb, Tit-comb, of Mill Creek. A horse belonging to John Titcomb, of Mill Creek, was yesterday evening killed bya shock from a telephone wire, at the corner of Main and First South streets. The linemen were pulling up a new wire, when Titcomb drove against it, pushing it up against the live wire of the street car company. The insulation was scraped off the feed wire and in an instant the horse dropped dead. The feed wire was burned in two and dropped to the grouud. The heavy current also ran over the telephone wiro into the cupola over the Deseret bauk building, burning out the safety fuses and setting fire to the place. The fire department was called out and the fire was extinguished but not until after all the city connections had been burned out. The dead horse was removed bv Sanitary Inspector Showell. Titcomb will demand pay for his horse from the telephone company. |