| Show KILLED BY electricity AN incident occurred in fia new york on friday last which shows the danger of carelessness connected with the manipulation of electricity A tele phone pole bole had become charged with the electric fluid through contact with a loose wire which bad connection with the telephone line it had been left theft there by some person who had been ex experimenting jeram 9 the pole aple ras was in spot such i a condition on as lo 40 10 endanger the 11 lives of people liable accidentally I 1 or 09 other er wise to e pope in coal contact fact W wath T th it A 4 lad named harry ekr ry williams who owing to his disposition was k known as happy Wll liaina JI was wa a returning from his bis wort work when I 1 be told some boys who were i with him that he was not afraid to touch the pole in his bla hand was a piece of iron hoop ws was hooked at the end he put the hao hook k over an iron spike in the dole the first thing he said was wa 11 1 I dont d ont feel anything in another instant his body was convulsed and he staggered AWRY away from the pole with the te hoop still in his bis right hand ao ac cording tp to the boys who were with him all be sold said was tell them it if burti he staggered as far as the fence and there ell 11 down and died life was quite extinct when a doctor reached him the only visible injury was a burn on the hand which held the hoop and his fa face was not u any way disfigured or distorted |
