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Show HORSES KILLED BUUVE WIRE "Hodo" Kill Wiscott Loses His Hack Team in State Street Accident. ANIMALS DIE IN TERRIBLE AGONY Holts of Fire Shoot From Their Bodies During Heath Struggles. Hodo" mil "iMcut t , who operates a hack from the BLenyon hotel corner, Is now thoroughly convinced that his lifelong life-long dread of a storm Is well founded, y.'ituiduy evening while taking Dr. J. S. Richards t. Tenth South and Bfate street his team struck a live wire, which had fallen across the trolley wire a few feet away, and both horses were killed Tho drii r and lJr. Richards both received Shocks Which Will leave tin ir effects for some time to come, ulthough neither was seriously Injured. The no Merit happened on State neur Tenth South. Terrible Suffering of Horses. The tlrst Intimation the driver had that tho team had stru k a live wire was when the bolts of flame shot from their bodies as though they had been struck by lightning, light-ning, followed by their whinnies of pain thai almost approached the groans of a human being. The' wire caught one of the horses under tin nn k and as it fell the other one was connected with the current and both dropped to the ground. It was prob;ibj a minute before both were dead, but because of the danger that the driver wouUl have been In, it was useless to try and extricate them. Linemen Arrive. Upon the arrival of linemen from the I'tah Light & Railway company the wires were Clsentanglcd and the horses hauled away. Mr W iscott Is alleged to have a dreael of all Storms, whether wind, rain or electrlcnl In their character, and has often been known to put his team In tho barn. It Is said, upon the approach of a bad storm. The elements were In xceed-lngly xceed-lngly good condition for such an accident Saturday Inasmuch as the slush and rain made It possible for a live wire to electrocute electro-cute any person or animal which cams within a reasonable distance |