| Show I Ii I I I I I j i i i i i I I I I rR PROBE 8 f SYSTEM i TUA T TO 8 MAD Electrocution of Ogden Man and Injury of Others to Cause an Investigation of Faulty Elec Electric ic System ELECTROCUTION of John William Brown and the slight injury to five other residents of Ogden on Saturday night due to faulty electric light wires is to tobe tobe tobe be investigated by the public utilities commission The accident was due it itIs itis itis Is said by the feed teed wire for an arc lamp falling across feed wires to the residence section causing an extremely high voltage 0 The electrocution of Brown re recalls ails i ithe the fact that during the past three I months six persons have been killed by I electricity In Utah and in some of the instances death was caused by the low I voltage wires CONTROL OF WIRES The public utilities commission has control of the electric wires from th the plant up to the point where the light or power wires enter the home or plant of the consumer and then the state In Industrial industrial In- In I commission takes control as asI does the city in many Instances Both BothI commissions have a set of ot rules and regulations providing for the construction construction construction tion of the lines but both commissions i declare that with all the power they have faulty construction will creep Inand in inand and and particularly after aCter the wires enter the home or 01 factory or other places With all the precautions which we take to prevent pre accidents said P. P A. A Thatcher of or the industrial commission and with all the rules we send out regarding care in the Ithe handling of electricity electricity elec elec- and electrical energy there are many who are car careless less I Women who use electric irons often orten leave t their homes with the iron at attached at- at to the cui current ent and the result is the calling out of the fire department This we obviated afterward by directing directing direct direct- ing the putting on of a pilot light It would appear that the only way that these the accidents can be avoided is by education The power company should be called whenever anything is wrong MENACE SHOWN That the wire menace is far reaching s iS s shown by the fact that from the air airmail airmail mail mall service of the postoffice department department department depart depart- ment this morning came a letter signed b by John A. A Jordan chief chier construction engineer engine r of th the air mail service which is as follows I Your attention is called respectfully respectfully respectfully respect respect- fully to the wires maintained by the Utah Power and Light company at the new municipal aviation feld used by bythe bythe bythe the United States air mall mail service and by other aeroplanes visiting Salt Lake JORDANS JORDAN'S LETTER These wires are a serious menace to the safety of the field as a landing place and inasmuch as the city of Salt Lake has expended a large sum of money and the citizens generally have expended a very large amount of ot energy energy energy en en- ergy it is hardly fair for a corporation to nullify such efforts and to depreciate depreciate depre depre- elate the value of ot the field to such an extent as this line of wires does A few tew days since a visiting aeroplane aeroplane aeroplane aero aero- plane ran into these wires and a fa fatality fatality ta- ta was narrowly averted I respectfully ask that you take the necessary steps to use your good ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts to Induce the Utah Power and Light company to eliminate these wires by such means as they think best The public utilities commission after acknowledging the receipt of ot the letter letter letter let let- ter sent a copy of the letter to the Utah Power and Light company with the request that the company take necessary necessary essary essar action to protect life and property prop prop- erty I I The power company said today that It had received no official notice of I Mr Jordans Jordan's letter to the commis commis- I sion slon It was stated however that the company had been approached directly on the tho matter and had ex exI expressed ex- ex pressed its willingness to remove the I wires providing the actual cost of the removal were met by those deI desiring desiring de de- de- de siring it Inasmuch as the wires I Continued on page as 5 PROBE OF WIRE Continued from page 1 1 were there many years before the aviation avi avi- J 1 atlon field was laid out the tIie com pany parry It was stated felt Celt that their thel presence should hav have e been taken into consideration when the field was wad chosen and some provision made at that time |
