Deseret Evening News | 1904-08-12 | Page 2 | He Got a Shock

HE GOT A SHOOK Waterworks Named Forbes Tins HAS Experience Lire Uvo James Forbes day emergency man manIn manIn In tho waterworks department a accident about noon to today today day In tho Iho basement of tho Utah Na National lIonal bank in he hi came camo very ery near being electrocuted It wan 1111 report reported ed to In he department lie Ill I t 11 I was u 11 let leak In the pipes the bank and was to t l In tho he I matter Ho Ih bj of ot the tho bank In III some Home un the water pipes In III contact wires wireR His hands legH And vern very Iry badly burned Inri hut but for tor the I timely arrival of nt help he hI might have been mora seriously Ills cries for or attracted the attention of or ot o tho Iho bank who came cumo to I hla and HIlI pulled hint him looie 1008 from tin Ih wires to tf which hl hili hands ero tightly riveted by th electricity Had been hellI a II heavier voltage on all tho Iho at nt tha tho time ha ho would undoubted undoubtedly lI lII ly I have lost his life me As 8 It H III he H I 8 e burned and will not bo fully full je I from hili for It 1 1111 r tho leak leakage age complained of 0 which led to I Forbes I vl thc tho bank was caused hy Irrigation tion filter was II not lIot from the city lIty at III nil all