Show LIFE SAVEDBV Y GLOVES Linemans Remarkable Escape Es-cape From Death HAS TWO NARROW ESCAPES I 1 Frank Puckett Ecccivcs Current o r I Electricity While ona Pole but Is Elfctrcty Whie 01n Saved From Death by Gloves Lessening Les-sening the Force of the Charge Hs Was Rendered Unconscious and Fell but Glove Caught on projection Projec-tion nnd Again Saved His Ll eA Narrow Escape Frank Puckett a young lineman employed by the Bell Telephone com from pany had a miraculous escape death while engaged in stringing wires at tho corner of Fifth South and State streets yesterday forenoon He undoubtedly un-doubtedly owes his life to the tact that he was wearing gauntlets at the time I oCthe mishap which came so near ending fatally for the gauntlets formed l sort of Insulator lessening the effect of 1000 volts of electricity which passed into his body while he was astride the cross arm of an electriclight pole Then as he fell from the cross arm to nn apparently Incvltobla death oil the hard ground thirty feet below the gauntlet of one strong buckskinglove iron and caught on 0 projecting rod of held his form dangling limp until fel lowworkmen could ascend and lower him from the perilous position with j rope While the injuries that he received re-ceived are not of a serious nature he escaped death by an extremely narrow margin At the time of the mishap young Puckett was engaged in drawing 0 line of wire over a guy wire which extended ex-tended above his head to another pole Through one of the wires supported by the cross arm upon which he was sitting was passing 1000 volts of electricity elec-tricity He had hold of this wire with one hand when he inadvertently reached above his head with the other hand and caught hold of a guy wire Thus his body formed n circuit and IrJ I an Instant two fellowworkmen who had been observing him from below were horrified to see him writhing about under the force of the electricity A moment later his form slipped from the cross arm and fell head foremost toward the ground Barely six feet had been passed when n little rod of projecting Iron used as n step fastened Itself llrmly in the buckskin l gauntlet and checked the fall After young Puckett had been lowered to the ground he was carried into Sherwoods drug store a few yards distant and Dr Hasbrouck was called Within a short time the Injured man had been restored to consciousness and It was found that his injuries were not ora dangerous nature Both hands were severely burned from contact with the live wire one of the fingers of the left hand being so badly burned that amputation will In all probability be necessary Puckett was removed to St Marks hospital and it Is thought that I he days will be able to he about In a few |