Deseret Evening News | 1904-07-22 | Page 5 | Badly Burned by Electricity

U N fD O m BV RV H Benjamin Harmon Marmon Has lias s a Frightful Experience at tear Hear River taller Power Plant lEGS Must linn Received from froll 1 to 1000 Volts How the Accident Occurred Special to the News City July 22 Benjamin Hatmon Marmon of or was ova badly at rat thc tho river power plant yesterday through coming In lu contact with n a heavily charged electric Ll Mr ate If 1 Harmon doing some soma carpenter work In the high tension room when lio ho climbed on ou to Ur soma caul ipri d on n a lr CUBe case The currant dropped two tern feet teet from the tho live wire ran through tho iho transformer lord and Ilna down his hex left lert leg to ton n u ground tUra Ire Then It Jumped to tho iho tight leg ItC juicing through th It Il alno alxa Both Bolh leg legh were wele ere badly bailly burned the tho left loti leI leg the th then worst Wc n r t AH As H tho iho currant struck the un unfortunate fortunate ratan an nn arc light formed be he between het tween t and nn tho wire WIIO w h e lighting tho rho building most moat brilliantly II II From hrom 12 to la volts must hove have hn ve paused nugh his hex Ills His clothing Willi badly horned burned ami he ho tens I aa ns rendered In ht Inn n 1 precarious condition A doctor wax waxIn In III attendance n within an at hour and In Inthe the tho the Inured Injured man was token taken to Bull Lake cud placed In tho rho He von vas accompanied there theca thereby by hy his ilia wife and a n trained nul so