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Show I POPULAR mi IN I MEETSJRAGIC DEATH B dresser Bird, Superintendent I Electrical Plant, Electrocuted I While at Work. H Special to The Tribune. -T SPRINGVTLLE, July 23 While doing some wiring work at the residence of Bruce Ttoylance, Dresser Bird, suporln- tendent of the electrical plant of thl3 city, was electrocuted at 3:20 o'clock this afternoon. Death was almost inslan- taneous. Mr. Bird living only a fow min- utes after the current had passed through his body. He was twenty-three years old B,V?r,h,?a boen 'Parried only throe months B1WhUc standing on damp ground Air m Bird csmo In contact with a live wire HI the Insulation having been worn off. and I a heavy voltage passed through his body. f rendering him senseless. Life was cx- I t net before medical aid could be secured Hi utes5'0""5 ma" within several i mfn- IU r,.M,r' .Bir? w.as th. brother of Martev VI Bird, the local station agent of the Dcn-ver Dcn-ver & Rio Grande railroad, and he had KM a,,Y,? c,,rcI? of rrlenl here. His death m will be deeply regretted at the electric" If Plant, where he was popular with the 1 employes. In addition " to hi voung ft widow and his brother, Martcv. lie & survived by a mother, who resides here |