Show thomas and verna mcmaster electrocuted with a swiftness that is ap appalling pallin death entered the family circle of sir mr and sirs mrs J B cr tuesday morning claiming two of its members the eldest son thomas and the youngest daughter verna both mere ere electrocuted and died instantly undoubtedly never so much as feeling a pain of f any kind it all happened with such terrible swiftness and fraught with such overwhelming wh elming results that the entire community as veil as the immediate families was mas stunned and even though several days have passed the thought that thomas Alc mcmaster Master and his sister verna are dead seems impossible put hut such Is the case nevertheless and two homes are arc deluged in fit eilef it a wife and t two mo little boys are loft left without a husband and fattier father and a man getting gettin in on in years Is bereft of his mainstay stay in a business way as well sell as having his home robbed of one of its lovely flowers mr air 1101 aster and wife were up till bright and early tuesday mottling doing the weeks washing before lie he went to its his daily work they have an electric motor attachment fox for their washing machine the being conducted through a cord attached to one of the house lamp drops one washer of clothes had been nin iun thru and mr ir Alc mcmaster Alaster went over to the side of the house to get the alinger to fasten on abe the machine and wring the clo clones at cult As he was nt king his way may toward the washing machine with the wringer in ills his left hand the electric cord was evidently in his way so he did just what anyone else would have done reached out his bis right hand to thrust it to one side the moment his hand came in contact with the cord he was killed hilled on the spot his body falling in it a erect position against the side of tile the summer kitchen his left hand baud still grasping the w linger w while I 1 eifle lils ills right ha fia ar u drw yr Sri riK IA 6 ing burned by the livid cord which lie he had caught between the thumb and second finger the first finger resting over stairs mcmaster had just left him for a moment and was horrified horr ined upon poll her ter return to see her husband leaning up against the house his right land hand in ili a flame site she frantically called to him but lie he made no reply realizing the danger from the wire avire she refrained frait led from taking hold of it but slewed her husband around the waist to pull him loose from the cord instantly she was shaken up tip and down and thrown to the ground her screams attracted the family faintly of J B living just a few rods across the lot and sirs mrs mcmaster lIc Master her er daughters grace and verna springing float aiom their beds in their clothes ran across the lot to see what was the matter tito the ladies were barefooted and verna outstrip ing the others reached her alother bi other first no one saw what she did but the tit evidence is conclusive that she grasped the cord to pull it away from him her hand hall had no sooner bobner touched the cord than she was thrown wn backward with terrific force her in mother oth coming coining along just in time to catch her imp body as it fell lifeless into her arms the contact had killed her ter instantly Ins witly and a seared I 1 line i ne a across C r os her hand showed where she had grasped the wire assistance was summoned as quickly as it wits was possible tor for the members of the family to communicate the facts over the phone and heitic mea were instituted in the hope of resuscitating mr mcmaster Mci laster and his sister but they wire mere beyond all earthly pov pom or er tho right band of mr kir was frightfully burned as the heavily i barged ft ire ate its way into the very dwart ol III the bone ills his hl heel was also feared showing whore where the coutan CL had been the leather in the heel of his bis shoe aas as shriveled up a hole was hurnie in his stocking and the lin ing burnid out of his shoe ills his body stood up tip against the building for biow ion five minutes as near as can ile us learned with that tremendous charge of electricity passing thru it IL and it fell limp to tile the ground when his sister gave tile the wire a jerk which ended her ter life as wll well as stopped the current for the cord broke with the jerk site she gave it the charge was so heavy passing thru it that the insulation was burned off in many places and the wire was partly burned in other places so the supposition Is that when verna grasped it the shock caused by the contact or the pull which she gave it snapped the mim rii and P son soil had rushed to the resene ne upon hearing the screams of mrs ars frs mcmaster and endeavored to turn off the in III tile the house the moment his hand touched the lamp socket it was linci knocked Aed down as if some one had struck it with a heavy cin club b and no one attempted to shut off the current until after the cord had snapped such are the sickening details of the calamity and when it became known about the city what had happened business all but came to a standstill as business men clerks pedestrians and citizens g generally exter ally gath gathered lit in little groups and a nd discussed disa the sad accident it is safe to say that never in tile the history of Dri brigham ghant city has a hap pening caused such sleep deep gloom over the entire community as has the calar calamity ot of tuesday morning which brought so much sorrow to the ilc alc Master I 1 family that is the 0 one pe topie topic of conversation and sympathy goes out in a great universal wave to those IVI who to have been so cruelly bereft many theories have hare been advanced as to the cause of the feed cord becoming so heavily charged with electricity that tile the insulation would not prevent present the deadly fluid from affecting A any object that came in contact with the cord city electrician art 4 truelson advances the theory that the shock shock i 0 came from the ground in as much hs a primary wire was down doati in two plates plates just a block from the 2116 mcmaster raster home discharging a cur over 2000 volts into the earth which acts as a conductor the same as a copper wire and when A hen al mr r truel its as a copper wire and when mr me master allister touched the cord making a contact with a charged wire and the ground tile the circuit was completed an and d the fluid shot through his body to flow into the house wires this the ki aid rt evv ba t 1 ra i abl h lre reason that mr air mcmaster had evidently handled the charged cord before as part of the washing was lin fin ishad and it had been accomplished by using the electric motor which stood outside and was connected up tip av with ith one of the he house housa lamp drops this I 1 other theory is that the wind vind of the night previous which blew down 1114 the primary wire it a block north of the mcmaster home must have blown tuo wires together and the full current of the two was passing into one and being conducted into tile the houses in ili that neighborhood As evidence of this the fact is pointed to that in ili many households late that evening be bearor something wrong was noticed with the lights and those chose attempting to turn them oft off were shocked Ird more or oi less thomas mcmaster pr was born in this city IS years ago and has been a ery prominent young man all his lire life after reaching its his majority he a call for a mission to England leio previously married to miss lavinn I 1 ishburn ile he spent over two ym yil in scotland and returning home entered into a partnership with his father in the lumber and hardware business ile he was the practical head of the firm farm as liis isis fattier father left the management a ai most entirely to him and his ability along commercial lines has been larg ly responsible for the solid rating of the firm ile he was also active in church affairs having presided for a number of 0 years over the mutual improvement association a for the young men in the first ward the bight previous to liis its untimely death he was at his priesthood tro meeting and offered one of the prayers ile he also served one term as city treasurer and was thrice elected a director of the lum berbens ber mens association two sons stewart and robert came to bless his happy ap home and the future held bed out every prospect tor for a happy and successful c life tile the grief ariet of his wife and children as wll as ailet of his poor fattier father who depended on him so much is indeed touch liis itic verna mcmaster aster was in hoir ir sixteenth year a lovely maiden ju jul 1 co coming n to her own like a rose as it ft unfolds its portals rereading its folds and giving of is francc rolace ill adrig of it a thing to be desired by all she was a young lady whom all loved she had bad been one of the falt hrut office force at the store which makes her talc ing oft seem more sad tor for the reason that bishop mcmaster laster ater had left tile the business entirely in the hands of ills his son who lit in turn had made ills his sister his 1113 assistant their untimely death Is mourned ii THOMAS AND VERNA MCMASTER electrocuted continued flout first page zens in all walks in this community anti and as a mark of respect to their memories as well as that of their parents and families all business houses closed their doors a 2 today and remain closed until 4 while the funeral was being held in ili the tabernacle god grant ills his spirit lit in mighty abunda abundance nc to th those osei bereft that they may have tile the courage oural and strength sufficient to bear them up tit under this ordeal and assist them to see sometime in ili the near future tile the silver lining of the cloud clond that now hangs so depressingly over them |