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Show BHD TOA BLISTER., A Contrsctor Caugbt in th Coila of aa Electric Wira and Hurled Soma Twaa'y Feet. SAM CALDES'S NABKOW Z3CAPE. Thrown from a Car He ii Wrapped in the Trolly Eope and Nearly Dragged to Death. John Simpson, a contractor from Denver, was caught iu tho coils of a broken trolley wire, near Calder'i park yesterday afternoon and while hi electrocution elec-trocution was not perfect ho now lies in a critical condition in room 13 (.'law-son (.'law-son block on North Commercial street with Dr. A. 11. Maclean in attendance. The escape from instant death was almost miraculous. .Simpson had been among tho hundreds that packed that magic retreat during thu day and j boarding tho car for tiie city was com- ! pelled to content himself with a place J on tho 1 rout platform. Tho car was speeding homeward when suddenly the wire, that was rharged with a current heavy enough to mow down a regiment, snapped and came coiling coil-ing serpent like around the body of Simpson who was literally picked up in its deadly folds and hurled full twenty feet where ho lay writhing in uncooscious agony. Tlio horrilied inotorinan hastened to the side of tho luckless passenger and aided by the passengers succeeded in restoring him to life after the work of some twenty minutes alter which he was removed to his room in tha Clawson block. The unfortunate man was burned both on the scalp where the wire hail first struck him and his side is a mass of charred llesh. The external in juries in the opinion of Dr. Maclean are not o much to be feared as those that have visited the heart, the pulsations of which are such as to occasion serious alarm and which will render an early recovery exceedingly doubtful. There is scarcely any blame to be attached to the company and that portion of the traveling public who insist upon occupying occu-pying the platform should profit by this dreadful admunitiou |