Show CHARGED bIRE CARRIES DETH DEATH Verne Van Wagner Is Electro Electrocuted Electrocuted Electrocuted at United States I Smelter Sunday I II IVerne I Verne Van Wagner Yar aged ad 33 3 years em employed employed employed as an electrician in the United States smelter at Midvale was electro electrocuted electrocuted electrocuted yesterday afternoon while at work in the arsenic arnic bins at the smelter Van Wagner was as repairing some electrical machinery when he unwittingly took tok hold of a heavily charged wire When other workmen rushed to his hl aid he was un unconscious Unconscious conscious cn lous Dr Robinson of Midvale Id vale was called cale but his efforts to revive the spark of life failed and Van Wagner died two I hours after the accident accident The body was WIS brought to Salt Lake and will 1 be buried burled by the local loal lodge loge of Knights Knight of ot Pythias of ot which he was a member Van Wagner had been employed at the smelter only three Weeks Formerly he had worked at Sliver Silver City Ct and other I Tintic mining camps He was a native of Ohio Very Vel little is I known of him himas hIm himas as he was ws a stranger In Midvale So S far faras faral faras as al is known knon he h was as not no married and no relatives have been located Just how the fatal accident occurred is isa Isa isa a mystery Van Yan Wagner was wal a skilled skie electrician and had repaired the electrical machinery at the th plant on numerous oc occasions occasions No one witnessed the accident although it is i supposed that he came in contact with the live lve wire without being bing aware of its It proximity |