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Show iiAtai rt ssi.t: with a ikk. The l.itrtjr Tim a Small Huy llntl lu Nm York. Xkw- Yuuk, Julv .V Dneof two electric elec-tric light w ires wliich lei miii.iled at a polo on tho M'lilh side of Tirlecnili slrvot. alMiit '.'iiii fect west of Fifth j avenue, snapped in two yesterday morning. It had Imtii dangling ulniest w iihiu reach of a tall ma:i foralHiutal week. Just In'foiv it broke a man fell j in a lit on thi sidewalk, almost uinler it. A group of children on their way! to tho Thirteenth .street (iraniinar ; school gathered around the man, and ; Hougla.vi Stewart, a young colored ! truck driver, reined lip hi horse near the sidewalk to get a nearer iev The live end of the win f:raed Stuart's hat and burned a dark iiu across it. Waller Maek'iiii. U years old. of ;lt Kat Tenth street, grabbed the end of the wire aud went .spinning around iikn a lop. II. couldn't j let go. He says that he couldn't help j spinning, though lu tried to with all! his might, lie tried to yell Iml he couldn't do that cither. TIirii ho nave himself In the oivlrical daneo. Presently Pres-ently he fell, still holding on to the wire, and began rolling on the sidewalk, side-walk, lie says In felt himself si illeii-ing illeii-ing out, and heard homebody ay "lie's dying." lie was not, however, thinking think-ing of dying. All he w anted was somebody some-body to take the w ire out of hi. right j list. While he was lving look-j ing upward and unable lo say a word a man ran up. grabbed him by iho heels, let go in n hurry, and aM something short, and hoi w ilhuut releasing releas-ing Waller. Policeman Tom Mel'on-liell Mel'on-liell came along. lie hit the wire a swift, strong hl.ivv with his stick and soul il living skyward out of tho hoy's grasp. Then he picket! the boy up and carried him to a drug store. ' Waller recovered enough to walk half of tho distance. There was a slight burn across the palm of his hand. Ho went to school iu tho afternoon. Ho san ho will never touch any kind of w ire again. Tho Fast Uiver Klecirie Light company, w hich ow ns the w ire, savs the wiro was dead, had been dead a long lime, and must have got its load from a "cross." |