Show Oce Washington Ogden Wednesday Nov 23 BURNED OUT Residences Cut Off By Accidental Dropping of a aLive Live Wire About sixty of the Rocky Mountain Belt system wore out of yesterday the ac of a wire by of the city fire Torn Moore of tile depart ment with an assistant was repairing the firn alarm system on the upper part of street when they accident accidentally ally dropped a copper wire it foil across I Ian an lead wire of the Utah Light Railway Company nal then across a network of telephone wires ThIs created a short circuit and the heavy voltage was send through the telephone wires burning about mostly located in residences In the part of the cIty The dropped wire alSo melted through the wires severing about The switch switchboards boards were also damaged to some extent and the telephone company at first estimated the loss at I about Later estimates put the fig figurea urea somewhat lower Linemen were at once put at work and the company expects In the burned out instruments all again by tomorrow night The city fire system was not damaged |