Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-12 | Page 12 | Narrow Escape of a Lineman

If Mm NARROW ESCAPE f OF A LINEMAN '' l' i Receives Two Thousand Volts of 1 1 i ' i II Electricity and Falls Twenty- I1 jjj j Five Feet. I ,; I- ' ! f7ILIjTAM' A- ending, a linc" 1 ! P I 1 ww "ian oC thc Rocky Mountaln -'' " t ' !(' M knocked from tho top of a 'Utjy! f 1 Iwcnty-flvc-foot pole by a live wlro . . ' about 2;S0 yesterday afternoon, when , ) ( . .; two thousand volts of electricity passed ' ! J' j . through his body. He might have been ' ,; J serlouslv injured had not his fall been ' (( ,:, ! broken by his striking a fellow work- ' ; man who was standing on tho ground. , , !i,! ' Fording was at work on a pole near ! . ! ' ' the cast entrance, of the City and Coun- 1 j ' 1 I tv building grounds, when he 'seized i l i' ; ' 'J with both hands a short circuited wire i I J'B J ! and was knocked senseless to tho I ; 'til ' ground, twenty-five feet below. The II ( j ' j workman at the bottom of tho pole was , jt . . Htruck in a glancing way by tho falling I it t I man and was knocked down, but cs- ' ! J caped without injury. Fordlng's hands ( were badly burned from their contact t ' I ' with the wire mid he was unconscious J i ' il , for some time. The police patrol wagon I i ' i ' j '! 1 was sent for and the injured man was V 3 ' i i 1 removed to the station, where Dr. V-'(!!; Benedict attended him, having him , 1 i ! ; later taken to the Holy Cross hospital, i ", ' j ! ! Upon first regaining consciousness at I i 'A j the hospital. Fording complained of se- ' J' " . : j vcre pains in his back, but no broken 'i 1( I ' bone was found and no indications of ' Internal injury had developed last even- 31' Jng. The man was suffering both from 1 IS tho electric shock and the shock of the j 1 i j fall, but it was believed that no perma- iHi xicnt injury had been sustained.