Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-05-18 | Page 6 | Action for Damages

ACTION FOR DAMAGES WESTERN UNION AND THE BIO GRANDE AvESTE N SUED Case is Brought to Recover 820000 Because of the Death of Georgo W Sllkett from Electric Shock Suit to recover 20000 damages was yesterday llletl In the Third Dislt let court by I Mary Fritz admlnlsiralrlx of the slate of George AV Sllkelt deceased de-ceased against the Western Union Telegraph company and the Kio I Grand Western Kail way company In the complaint It IH alleged that OP October Oc-tober 27 1SJ8 Sllkett was employed by l the defendants as a roundman stretching electric wires between iwo telegraph poles that the defendants negligently failed to cast the electric current lo be l shut off from another electric wire in tloio proximity to the wiry upon which Sllkett was working that Sllkett came in contact with the I second wire which was highly charged I with electricity and received such a J shock as caused his death