Show wallace oaks narrowly escapes espes death by electrocution lat lat monday A M while repairing wiring on an electric asber at his ht home in monday wallace oaks an lamp 91 loron ot of the ashley Lo operate o company of 0 vernal narrowly escaped electrocution when be received a hary voltage from rom the lire live odre vire which ho he touched nith ath lit lila pocket knife A lie inua also standing on damp grass gr near hie tile house 1100 a more perfect circuit waa was formed mra lira oaks bearing hearing I 1 the screams ot of a child chill who witnessed the accia nt hurried to the scene land and found her husband prostrate ou the groua I 1 near the he machine clutch ing the lire wire she hurriedly broke the circuit by tearing the cord from rom the ceiling in the hoag house and administered dm first aid so intense was the current that mr mir oat oake entire boda waa as blackened blac kAied and tor for tiao houns houm he remained in a state ot of the ends ot of two fingers were burned ott off and bli entire body racked by the injury an ali X ray revealed that no bones had been broken mr oaks had repaired the cord leading from the house to the motor metor on the washing machica and bad signalled signal led to his hn wit wife inside the house ause to turn on the tha current by w accident he touched a bare 1 ire with bin his pocket knife and had it not been for ifor the quick work of at mrs oak his life would undoubtedly been snuffed out in a but a few tem seconds more although mr oaks Is unable to use his entire hand baud be he Is to able to be about again |