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Show CHILD ELECTROCUTED wrairoM GAME Contest Between Saints and Las Vegas Suddenly-Terminated. Suddenly-Terminated. LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 2?. A shocking shock-ing fatality put an end to the exhibition baseball game here this afternoon between be-tween the Saints and Las Vegas teams at the end of the seventh inning. As the clubs were starting upon the eielith inning in-ning a child's scream rang out with piercing agony. The cry was uttered by Edna Wyckoff, 12 years of age, a.t the instant when she was being electrocuted. The litile girl, together with a number of playmates, had climbed into the branches of a tree near the baseball field. Either to save herself from falling or to assist herself in f limbing higher. she grasped a wire carrying a high tension current. Sevpral young men climbed into the tree and attempted to rescue the girl, but each upon touching her was severely shocked. Attempts to disengage the body from the limbs with broken tree branches branch-es resulted similarly and not until un-til a phone message bad been sent to the power house and trie current shut off was It possible to take the body down. She had been dead for several minutes before a. doctor could reach the scene. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wyckoff. The ball game was ended as soon as it was realized that the Utile girl was dead. |