Emery County Progress | 1907-08-24 | Page 5 | Cuts Wire and Dies

CUTS WIRE AND DIES man attempts to prevent Conf lagra tion and loses H s life bingham junction utah edward mcdermit a telephone lineman was killed sunday night by 2 SOU volts of electricity passing through hia body wh ie he was trying to save an electric piano from burning up the accident was caused by one 0 the main feed wires of the progress power company of murray which supplies the town with electricity coming in contact with a guy chain up porting an electric sign in front 0 the leader batore in doing the full current parsed through the chain and deavil charged all the electric light and tele phone wires on that transformer in the main business part of the town A ha a dozen other people were injured when they went to turn on their lights and that none of the others were killed is regarded as miraculous