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Show SHOCKED TO DEATH BY A LIVE WIRE Young Minor at Mercur Almost Instantly In-stantly Killed in Golden Gate Mine. (Special to The Tribuno.) MERCUR, Feb. 19.At tho Golden Gate mine at 0:30 o'clock this evening William P. Walters lost his life. From Information obtainable it appears that Walters, in a spirit of daring, took hold of a live signal wire running from the seventh drift to the engine-room and was electrocuted. His companion. Herbert Her-bert Cooley. narrowly escaped with his life. Cooley. whose duty It is to attend to the signal wire, made the usual signal to the engineer at the top of the drift, He received a shock of electricity. oung Walter? laughed at him, stepped forward and took hold of the wire with both nands, standing In front of Cooley. who still had Ids hand on the wire. Instantly Walters doubled up and pitched violently toward Cooley. The latter extricated himself from the wire and with difficulty loosened the hold which young Walter had on the wlro. Medical aid was summoned, but when Dr. Tlinycr arrived he found that young Walters was dead. Wallers was 25 years old, unmarried, and lived at Wellsvllle with his parents. pa-rents. He recently returned from a mission to the Northern State?, and had been in Mercur only a few months. An inquest over iho remains will probably be held here tomorrow. |