| Show KILLED BY electricity the deadly electric current had another victim yesterday afternoon and a more shocking scene could scarcely be depicted than that which occurred at the intersection of twenty eighth street ard ar d the alley between curtis and champa A human being was being cooked alive out of reach of all help and scores of people who had been drawn thither by the crowd turned away from the place heartsick about john a line inspector of the colorado telephone company ascended the pole to fix a wire which had become crossed with another telephone wire he was trying to get an easy position in which he could work and stood with his foot on the lower cross bar holding to the up per one he took hold bold of an insulator which gave way nearly throwing him to the ground fifty feet below he regained his balance however and was preparing to do the work placing his left foot upon a wire he attempted to put jhb other leg over the upper bar and took hold of another wire thus completing the circuit the shock was terrible and his bis whole body krew grew rigid from the effect the current was evidently an alternating one as the muscles relaxed and the body a assumed its natural position but another strung strong current went through the man and again the muscles les grew rigid HUNO HUNG ON THE it was fully five minutes before he lost control of himself and fell backward striking on the wires and lay there for nearly an hour and three quarters burning the hissing sound the smell of burning flesh made the spectacle a most horrible one A friend and former partner carl green lives but a short distance away and saw him ascend the pole he went over to throw him a coil of wire when the first shook was received he says that was standing upon an electric light wire and that his foot slipped and scraped so off the insulation fully 2000 people e gathered and it was an hours hard work before the man could be gotten down green notified the company and the ambulance was sent up from the station but bat was powerless without a ladder and a 4 rope the progress of the ambulance was slow owing to the fact that it is too heavy for one horse especially if the streets are very muddy when they arrived a however they were unable to do anything and sent for the hook book and ladder wagon from the curtis street station BLUE FLAMES when it arrived a blue flame could be seen and smoke emanating from the foot life became extinct in a few minutes after the accident occurred but his hand still clutched the pliers with a death grip as it hung motionless the throngs throng seemed med to grow with each moment that passed and all stood breathless as they watched the ladders being raised and the body being taken from the deadly wire through which the current still poured it was necessary to cut several wires before the body could be disentangled the police had a hard time to keep back the me excited crowd while the brave fire laddies and the linemen lowered the life less form to the ground it was placed in the ambulance where in charge of police surgeon burgeon smith it was taken to the coroners for the powerful current had done its work well A deep mark was burned in the right temple and the bottom of the left foot was cooked to crisp and badly blackened it was evidently a more powerful current than that of a telephone wire and probably came from an electric poorly insulated crossing the wire he stood on the deceased was a single man abdus 25 years of age he bad been rooming at market street and had been in the employ of the colorado telephone company for the past three months he was formerly a member of the firm of green woodman Wooi iman Swo azey an electric ele otric light wiring company which has baa its ila office in the jacobson Jaco beon block he had bad been in the employ of the telephone exchange at omaha for at least eighteen months before coming to denver and was in the firm of green woodman for over a year he was always considered a capable and careful kanand was given district no 6 5 of the company Is s lines for this reason as it is in the dangerous portion owing to so many electric light wires being in it about a week ago he be received a shock near the telephone building on lawrence street anti ami fell twenty to the ground he has a father and mother living in hillsdale mien mich and his father was expecting to make him a visit in a month he also has relatives at des moines iowa but none in denver denver news |
