Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 8 | Telephone Lineman Falls Thirty Feet |

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Date	1908-08-21
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Telephone Lineman Falls Thirty Feet
Type	article
Date	1908-08-21
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	8
OCR Text	TELEPHONE LINEMAN FALLS THIRTY FEET Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN. Aug. 20. While at work thirty feet from the ground cutting awav hanging hang-ing branches of lroe3 from the wires of the Independent Telephone company at Rlvcrdale, Thursday, Richard Jessop. a lineman of this city, fell to tho ground and Is believed to bo injured Internally. Jessop was standing on one wire nnd holding wilh his hands to others above, when tho lower wlro gave way, prcclp-llatlnR prcclp-llatlnR him to the ground. Ho was able to sock a physician's assistance unaided, but his condition was found to bo moro serious than ho at first supposed.
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