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Show BURNED IN THE DEADLY COIL. A Horrible Beath Caused by a Loose Electric Elec-tric Light Wire. Panama, Xov. 2. Saturday a naked telephone tele-phone wire was detached by some street Arab, so that it hung from its support to the ground, trailing over a certain wire from the electric light plant. A police officer commenced com-menced to haul it in. The act of drawing caused it to cut through the rubber insulation insula-tion of the electric light wire. The officer received a shock which rendered him un-conscious.J un-conscious.J A great crowd gathered, and, before the electric light company could be notified to shut off its current a horse hitched to a cab was driven over the wire and killed. The cab tnan attempting to extricate his animal from the harness, thinking that he had simply fallen, was, struck on the forehead by the swinging wire, which bit through his skull almost" to the ears and there remained. The electric fluid literally tilled the mau's head, and iu a. moment his brain and eyes had eenjjLMincinerated. The flesh and ..s.TlSffrrkr'nt until thev aVsn were reducels&ed 0J,,it to ashes. All this while sparks rjKr,, jalout- his head in an awful shower, fjvs literally glaring aud radiating the consuming lire. " Xo "other casualties. |