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Show KILLED BY LIVE WIRE V Electrician. Chooses That ( . Death Rather Than by ' ) Cremation. ; ' . . . . I CHICAGO, Sept. 2. Nels Anderson, a i f motor irtspector for the Illinois Steel I 1 Vompany, chose death by electrocution ( Tin preference to a more horrible fate in one of the company's seething metal pits today at the South Chicago works. ' Anderson was doing repair work on , the arm of a crane directly above one i of the hot metal pits. A slight move- 1 ment of the arm caused him to lose his ) balance. The only support within reach was an uninsulated live wire which ' connected the crane with power. ! Anderson gave one glance at the ! white hot. metal below and caught the wire as he was falling. He was almost I Instantly killed and the body hung over i the wire until the current could be shut off. Death is thought to have been ln- . stantaneous. . . ' |