Show TWO ARE KILLE IN CRASH OF DERRICK L LIfe fe Is Crushed From One tl ii rb le J 4 I if m a i T v 0 Wires Wire's wire s Embrace Two lives were vere snuffed out when a derrick cr crashed shed yes- yes erday at tl the e Jordan river station of the Utah Light ight Railway Rail Rail- way Nay ay company One man was shocked to death as jie he writhed in the grip of f a avire wire vire carrying volts of electricity t. t I Another was vas so crushed by hy the falling derrick that he lived ived barely an hour I A third was severely injured by hy flying timbers HIu HI u It R. GIG SouthWest South ELER MERTON t West Temple street electrical engineer 6 years 6 years 91 old 1 b by electricity J I FRECKLETON TO WILLIAM D D. engi engi- neer au South State street 45 46 years old crushed J WESTON ANDREW severely cut on scalp and arll lips will viIi recover ver The accident was caused by tho the snapping snapping snap snap- ping of ot a pile driver It occurred at nt 12 1210 10 o'clock In tho the afternoon Tho The derrick constructed of or two fours bent under the strain of an 1500 poun pound xv wel weight eight ht tottered a a. second and then crashed crushed to the ground round It carried down one of at the feed teed wires of or the tho company compan Wheeler heeler who was seated ten feet awa away on a beam abeam was seized in the tho grip of oC the wire as It If by bv the of or an octopus For minutes he battled with the wire which wrapped itself around arid and around him Vainly ho he tried to snatch the writhing thing from himmen him Then men ho lie tell fell back bock lead dead I Ou Due en o Hone W Yo v. 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G Swanner chief engineer at atthe the tho plant himself J barely barch recovered I from a narrow e escape cape from death bythe by bythe the thin same wire about six months ago rushed to the aid of or Wheeler after he had turned off orf the current But all nil allot ot of his efforts to revive the young man were While hUe Wheeler was fighting the hivo wire lay Iny groaning beneath the debris of ot the fallen tanon derrick his groans mingling with the cries of ot I Wheeler heeler Freckleton was stricken at athis athis his hits p pout nl with his hand band on tho the lever nf ot the donkey onit engine which was hoisting the tile 1800 pound weight Weston eston who is It known as Gentleman Gentleman Gentle man And Andy was standing at nt tho the foot toot of the derrick Ills His scalp calp was laid open clear across the tho back of his head and his upper lip was vas almost cut off ote As soon as the current was shut hut off art from the wire which tossed Wheeler were hither nn and thither physicians summoned Dr 1 E B. E E. W Wilcox hicox 05 Tern Tern- building was the first to arrive Ho lie was followed quickly by Dr 7 W. A A. Wade adt West Second South street and Dr J J. J C C. C the coman com coin surgeon Deseret News bullen building build bulle- an any ing ingA n A glance showed ed the medical men that Lh t nothing could be bl lone done for fo so NO they the turned their attention to who had been dragged from under the derrick b lI by his fellow workmen workmen work work- men Freckleton was VaN hurried to the Latter day Saints Saints' hospital but ho he died on the operating table first But Dut before the doctors arrIved aid lilt to the injured hn had been rendered b by a a. woman Mis Mai Ilal Iary Mills No 30 South Seventh West Vest street A trained nurse Mrs Mills knew Immediately Immel-Hately what to do O when whon she arrived on the scene attracted by the tho crash of ot the snapping timbers Gentlemen Andy was staggering about half conscious from his hurts Mrs Mills gathered him Into her hor arms alms pillowing his bleedIng bleedIng bleeding bleed bleed- ing head hend upon her white shirt waist and did much to relieve c him bIn until the hospital arrived ambulance Mrs Irs Mills was visiting her hel sister Mrs Susie Wil Wi- Tilson son No Z n Glendale Glom 1 street Together with Billy Dilly her hei nephew Mrs Mills was waN almost the first one at the scene of ot the accident J. J J M. M McCormick No 1048 Euclid Euell avenue of McCormick Gray contI contractors contractors con con- tI tractors actors owner of the derrick was n witness of or the fatality He lie declined to express an any opinion as to the cau cause e eor or of the accident on the ground that he be ou ought ht not to talk talk- for foe publication until after he had hall conferred with his ticy tey McCormick i. i Gray Groy were constructing constructing con con- an addition to tho tue power plant s Wheeler heeler mot met death while following his ambition to to- tobe be one of the most roost finished electrical engineers In the tho West Vest Although a 11 i graduate graduato of the tho electrical school of or Cornell university class of ot 07 07 be was working as assistant assistant as as- engineer to gain gaina a 0 full practical knowledge of electricity Wheelers Wheeler's mother Is prostrated b bj by bythe tho the shock hock of her hor sons son's death as Is his father J 7 M M. 1 Wheeler hoeler who Is vice president of tho the Swansea Collins mine at Silver City Mrs Mou Maude Evans tho the only other child of or the Wheelers lives lI In Stockton Cat Cal Funeral arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment mont will wm not be bo made until she arrives arrives ar ar- rives nives Young Wheeler was born In Goshen Utah Ho Ito wn was a graduate graduato ra of ot tho the Salt Lake High school where he hewon hewon hewon won renown as os a football player Tho The family has lived hived at tho the South West Temple street address for ten years Freckleton leaves a 0 wife wire and a 0 old months babe A former COlmer wire wife and two 14 i-i and lo lG old live in Pro Provo Pro o |