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Show ' WILLIAM NAEF KILLED. Comes In Contact With High Tension Electric Wire and Is Electrocuted. Special to Tlie Tribune. MAMMOTH, April 9. William Nacf, 2', years of age. mot Instant death here today by electrocution in an attempt to remove an electric wire which had been broken during a fire which destroyed a five-room frame house and contents bo-longing bo-longing to Robert Jcrmaln One of tho ends of tho wlro had fallen so that It was a menace to lives of persons per-sons who had gathered while the fire was In progress. Nacf sought to push the wire out of reach by the crowd, using a long stick for that purpose Evidently the wood was wet and the hea'y voltage ordinarily carried to thc Sioux AJax tunnel, tun-nel, shot through the man's body ln reaching reach-ing coniK'ction with the earth. Death was Instant. Mr. Nacf came here about two years ago from Mt. Pleasant. Surviving him are his widow and two small children. Tho body will be taken to Ml. Pleasant for burial. |