Show ROASTED BYTHE WIRES MAN AND WOMAN nORRI HORRIBLY BLY BURNED rhe fhe former caught hold of 0 a live wire and the latter tried to rescue him cie cleveland veland june 17 people passing lions along ontario street this afternoon were startled by the screams of a woman which came from the root of a restaurant known as the new bright house looking at the direction from which the cries came they saw 1 a I woman entangled in ili the telephone arid and electric wires forty feet above the round ground her clothes were on fire and she was loudly calling tor for help several men ran upstairs leading to the roof and thomas bell a reporter C f the world ascended by the fire es ape bell reached the unfortunate woman as aa soon as the other man and succeeded in rescuing her from her perilous position just as they succeeded in rescuing her dell bell caught hold of one of the live wires with his hand in an ail instant he was writhing in pain somebody had the presence of mind to cut the wire but that did not save bell he fell head downward to the fire escape a coll coil of wire being about his hips and holding him suspended in the air he screamed tor for help and for a time it seemed that he would be burned to death by the names flames that were playing about his body ile he was finally released and together with tho woman was sent to a hospital the latter whose name Is edith johnson will die her arms and legs being burned to a but bell though badly burned will recover the woman who was a waitress in the restaurant had gone to the root roof of the building to see a tire fire which was burning a block away she leaned out over the root to get a better view and ana in so doing grasped the electric light wires with her hands |