Show tILLED UNDER UI A A. POWER WIRE HIRE UNG liNc SALT SAl J LAKER BURNED TO DEA JU R 1 R Wheeler Electrical Engineer I Ii i High Tension Wire Knocked Down by fall fall- g Derrick at t Jordan River Power Por Plant I IIVO IVO 1 NO Others Seriously Injured I r lIman lI I man wa was burned to death ou probably fatally another danger dangerously crushed at the Jordan river plant gIant of the Utah Light 8 Railway company at 1 is s af when a huge derrick employed in pile M and fell feIl across the lri high h tension wires wire of I power poe company The wires fell wrapping cs Ss about M. M I. I R. R Wheeler 2 years eals eal's old a young en cn- on the pile driving wo work k I ion the wreck of the derrick was cleared away the 11 burned to a dry crisp was found be- be ton a laborer and Wil- Wil of South State Mer of the tho derrick engine thunder tho the falling derrick ston st n was severely crushed shoulders and probably se- se red Freckelton's skull was nd he was otherwise badly oils eIs not expected to live narrowly escaped i Ji k from the broken wires I Is he be current was cut oil off volts voIts ler would been in June He lEe was Wheeler a L mining man t I 16 South We West Vet t Temple c l It t flo loshen hen Utah tab count It lt Lulie nineteen t years s his ionise in iii the theand and then was as graduated I Lake Lako hj high h school While ho was prominent in II tho student body r p tin ll lii tI work in the high ul t to Cornell university l engineering cour course p ed from Cornell with LOT l. l pon his graduation Mr 1 13 U n f to to Salt Lake and had hadI hadas hadas I as electrical enl engineer ne r t 1 the lIP city since that time 1 led nit W Warning force was employed by Ly Britton Britten contracting firm Acting a building to the theyer ower yer station The rho men mell ed t d to work after the the derrick engine n ino was m. m Suddenly tile the hea y hea fid iid started to full fall Men Menn r n nn n ol 01 the engine levers but hut 8 Tho The beam boam weighing Led hed town down oft onto onlo the high h snapped snapper like the strain train and aua writhed the ground Wheeler etly under tinder th the wire ands and contact with the Uie live h-e completely tely off atha at ha bea y beam pinned pin him hime Jve 1 e wilt directly tl r ch th of and nd most mosto o churned burned from bis frame was till all thin that t was s i neck a f I ye ve 1011 officers and nell ph III II 1 the ceno soon after the r e injured men mn were Mere ii I. I I n. n I i. i S. S hospital hOlpit al where re ur nr r I oday hiu hall had A IIII huge gash I expected to prove pro fatal fall he ne for the accident can cnn cant can't canyet I yet t Known 1110 has haR been unable acm nent and tb the eyewitness eyewitness- were 01 able ahk to o give ghe c II iI 1 and varying accounts its ils r glI general l manager of nod and Railway company rt shortly a alter it 1 the aca ac aca acid ac ac- ac a id iI this afternoon jas as working in the tho power rs H Tie Tte had hat been last January All An ien Ill I'll were WI engaged in put put- rick Just before the accident young Wheeler went outside and sat down own near the derrick Suddenly the tho derrick toppled over onto the high tension wires of the tho Telluride Tel Tel- luride Power company and broke one of them The live end struck Wheeler and ho he was killed almost instantly We have e not been a able le to place paco responsibility for the accident as yet Immediately Im rn- rn mediately our assistant physician Dr er was summoned and ho lie tri tried hiat to 1 hat w-hat aid he c. c Could The Them Themen Themen m men n immediate to the L. L D. D s 5 8 hospital where th-t th they y were 1 placed upon the operating table Wheeler was considered a a. good oo |