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Show r 1 I T'I fit cpw i7 1 "I'm all clear now!" Thus gafped George Hill, a Utah Light and Railway company lineman, a moment after 2000 volts of electricity shot through his frame. An Instant later he died. George Hill, known all over the country, coun-try, as "Brocky" Hill, one of the most expert linemen in America, was electrocuted elec-trocuted at Twelfth South and Seventy East streets at 10:10 o'clock Monday morning while soldering a cable union at the top pf a thirty-foot pole. Hill had at 10 o'clock received a heavy shock by coming In contact with a telephone ground wire that traversed the length of the pole. - In the language of the linemen he had been "pretty badly bumped." His fellow workmen urged him to quit work for an hour but Hill refused to do this. He said he was all right and resumed his labors. Two men were on poles on either side I of the one on which Hill was working. At 10:10 o'clock they heard Hill shout. "Oh." His form straightened out and he became rigid. Then he relaxed and his fellows thought he would fall to the ground, a distance of thirty feet, before they could reach him. Thre of the men ran up the pole, and when they reached the cross arm on which Hill was working, they fastened fas-tened a rope around his body under his arms. Hill seemed to collect himself for a moment. Turning to his would-be rescuers. Hill said: ',.' "I can get down all right, I m all clear now." . Then his body became limp and he almost fell from the pole. ' His body was lowered to the ground and while several of his companions vainly tried to revive him. others telephoned tele-phoned for Dr. C. M. Benedict, who arrived ar-rived on the scene in a few minutes. Hill was dead before his body reached the ground. ' - Taylor's undertaking establishment. Hill came here about four months ago and at once entered the employ of the Utah Light and Railway company. He had lived at the Valley bouse. Hli parents live In Kansas City. He was 41 years old ard was single. |