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Show HIGH VOLTAGE LINE KILLS 2 ATM CITY Pair Meet Instant Death While Drying Out Drill-hole Drill-hole at ' Highway Construction Con-struction Camp. ' FRAME OF TORCH HITS FATAL WIRE Bodies Severely Burned Before Fellow Employes Could Break Contact for Release. 4 : PARK CITT. Aug. II. James Healey, (I, and John Wolssncarger, ft, employed by the' Hamllton-Sprague Hamllton-Sprague Construction company of Denver, were electrocuted at a point on mile north .of thla place about 4 o'clock this afternoon when the torch they were using to dry out a sixteen-foot drill hoi earn in" contact with an electrla cable carrying 44,0 volts. Both men were killed outright, their bodies terribly burned by tha high-power current.' Healey, whoa only known adorns ad-orns Is Liverpool. England, went to work on tha fob thla morning. Wolsencarger came her from Knoxville. Tenn, and had been with the conetructlon company leea than two weeks. . Bo far aa known locally neither man la survived by a family. ' Heveral oon at ruction gangs ' ar working between this camp and th Park-Utah mine, . road building, stretching electric cable and In. stalling other Improvements. When Healey came on the Joh he was assigned to work with Wol Senear ver In th drilling of powder pow-der hole by which t blast a right of way through th rock barrier encountered, They had Just com. pleted a sixteen-foot hole and were preparing to dry It out and remove uet aecuraulaOaa. with the torch. Both men hsd hold of tha Iron torch when It encountered one of the high tension .wire carrying power to th mining properties north of town. Diverted from It container, the electricity shot through It victim with Instant effect. Both- oodles were severely burned before companion workmen attracted to th scene, were able to remove them from conlaet with th current. The. bodies were brought ta an undertaking eetahllehment here and efforta will be made to communicate communi-cate with friend or relatives In their native cities. It I said. |