Show r l SPARKLING WIRES HOLD LINEMAN j ii J W Solomon Has Narrow i Escape in Spectacular Crash on West Aest Temple Street Streett t TOP OF POLE BREAKS OFF OFFMAN I MAN M PITCHES INTO TANGLE OF i CHARGED WIRES 1 J J 3 W v 0 Solomon a lineman In the em employ empIo I ploy plo pIo b the Western os tern Union Telegraph I company 3 at work taking down wire I I along Tiling South street had Ida llada a narrow I Ie escape e from Instant death yesterday afternoon about 14 Solomon with several other her linemen was at P work wok fk on a ft pole at the cor eor corner corn ner n r of or Third South and West est Temple street ee e The top or of the pole was loaded th five carrying nine each ch which wEre being bein taken e wires on on the last fast side of or the pole Sad fb all been taken down lown but the wires F westward were still up caus J ga ja heavy strain on the pole to the west So o great was the strain that when I last wire was cut from the opposite SWe jg Il the te entire entin top of oC the pole carrying caming m q five a broke completely complete off of and with a n crash cra b foil about ten tent Sect lect t becoming l entangled in n the dec elec VIe light and trolley troll wires below Im Tm there were fire and sparks out jul from u n hundred places l Solomon entangled In the midst mid t of oC ofU oCl U l standing on the curb urb ex expected every second to see Solomon V burned b to death lentil but he In some man manner mann mannor nor ner n r freed from the entangled ires and i reached cached the tIle pole with only V a scratches How Bow he be escaped es aped death Is 14 a mystery for to the wires which ho he i caught In were werl resting against V high tension electric t d wires Ires carry volts a Vork In getting the broken pole top V down dawn was vas as soon roon on commenced and line h the Utah Light Railway o n along alone with the Western estern Union gang were soon busy bus cutting cuttin 1 i th thi i wire which 11 was holding the top suspended in the air Ben Johnson an ani i lineman and one of ot the best In the th business tI ln climbed to the top op of or tiro t V pole po and with one leg across a aguy aJit aguy guy Jit wire reaching rea across a rOSR the street V slid himself along the wire many man feet V above the ground and cut out the th te tel teV V n r ph wires loose loo This piece of or work V brought rought forth applause from bystanders ors ers er V erThe 4 The accident made it necessary for tor torI forai ai I the thc electric current In the western stern section of oC the city to be turned off for tor one on hour between I 4 and V 2515 clock the people In the west side v ire without car service or r electric V lights The work In removing the V broken wires wireR and ind pole was soon oon over Oer t V V and d all aU the men were congratulating V V themselves t that the accident was not of oC a more serious nature |