Show iw KILLED BY ELECTRICITY Provo Man Meets Death While at Work on New Building Provo roO Feb BlumenthaL a 3 awell awell well known citizen of ot Prove Provo met death at about 1030 1016 this moraln front from an electric shock while engaged In placing a it galvanised iron cornice on OR the front of ot the new building being erected b by y the die Provo Prove Meat Produce company opposite the Mr Blumenthal Cad and nd several other work workmen men teat had bait hold of or the cornice C mlee fixing it in position po On the adjoining ng building on the south and but ten or twelve inches inc rem frem where the men were at work the wires of oC the Provo Electric Light com corn company pany are placed The cornice was acci sect accidentally dentally pushed punned against t the wire with ti an the result u that all who had hold h of the metal received Ived an electric shock of more snore or less lees severity Mr Blumenthal had hold of ot the cornice and was standing on ona ona ona a wire ire attached to the cornice and resting re Ung on a brick wall wail which also supported Mr Blumenthal A circuit was thus formed and Mr Blumenthal received the entire current of volts He save gave a scream which was heard by b Will Clay Clayton tout ton toll who was vas on th the building and who at the same time saw electric sparks fly from rum shoes Clayton and others rushed to the assistance of the un unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate fortunate man and dragged him from the metal He remained unconscious for about five minutes when he expired Gus Blumenthal a son Oll of or the deceased received a very severe shock Some of cf C the mon men who saw say him collapse le immedi immediately Immediately immediately pulled him away and in a short time he was waa able to move moe about The Theother Theother Theother other men who felt the shock were Leo Hanson Holt felt Waldemar Bott Bolt and James Goodman Mr r remains were wrapped In a blanket lowered from the tim building and md taken to Graham Jones undertaking parlors Mr Blumenthal was 57 ii years yearb of age and anda a native of Germany He came to the th United States In 1851 and located in Hast liast Hastings HastIngs ings Neb where here he remained reined till eleven years ago when he moved to Provo Prove where he has since resided being engaged j In sheet metar metal work A wife three soot sons and two daughters survive him |