Show RECEIVES FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK Herbert T Hills Bills Victim Peculiar of Accident A at Mammoth DEADLY CONNECTION MADE MADEA A SIX THOUSAND VOLTS PASS THROUGH HIS BODY I Mammoth March 4 Herbert T 2 Hills Rills a a civil engineer living in Salt Lake met meta a tragic death here a few minutes before noon today Six thousand volts of or elec eleo electric fluid from the light wires of or the Tel lurid Power company passed through his body and instant death resulted in a I painless form Mr Hills was surveying on n the side of the tho hill above the site of or the old Farrell Farroll mill mUla and Joe OBrien was carrying the chain He threw threw the steel tape over I what be he supposed st posed was a disused wire which formerly conducted the current to th the tho Manhattan mine a property which has lias not been in active operation for set ser several eral oral months month Mr Ir hula Hills picked up the Ule theother other oilier end of ot Uie tape establishing the connection thereby and anti was shocked to death OBrien received a severe shock and was unconscious for some somo time but I recovered lib lils escape e was due to a u heavy hey glove gloc which he wore and which lessened le the shock A brother of the dead man corn ean out from Suit Salt Lake on the th evening train arid and d will take the body bod to that place tomor row An inquest was hid held this after aCter noon which brought out the foregoing facts Herbert T r Hills lIma was the tho son of Lewis S Hills president of tho the Deseret Na bank and was a popular young oung man lie He was born in Salt Sult Lake Nov No 12 1 1876 and was married Sept 20 30 1899 1819 to a daughter of or Mr lr and anti Mrs Charles Bag icy ley of oC Cottonwood Mr r Hills was w a n mn mm Ine In engineer with an office at of ot Trade building g He was a graduate I of the state university and an was ns formerly I I employed at theoffice tho office of the d States Stats surveyor or general under both Sue SUr j I General Blair and Surveyor Gen eral oral Anderson ills His wife and anti two chil dren dreis survive him The Tho parents Mr lr and Mrs rg Lewis Lwi Hills are at present in S Son San m Francisco I l Funeral arrangements will I be made as soon as it can be learned when they the will reach home I |