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Show FELL AMONQ LIVE WIRES. A Kansas City Fireman Meets n HorrlbU Dentil. Kansas City, Mo., Mny 12. Whllo working at the flro which destroyed tho Now by Transfer and Storago company's com-pany's building James F. McNeills, a fireman, foroman of No. 4 truck company, com-pany, was killed. After tho falling of a rear wall, McNeills and five other firemen went In upon tho debris with a line of hose. The foreman camo la contact with a live electrlo wlro that had been carried down from tho roof of tho building nnd was killed. The hanging wlro struck McNeills on tho forehead and the shock caused him to plunge forward Into a network of lvo wires, where his company mates saw him die.--Two of tho Bremen wore severely se-verely shocked In their efforts to recover re-cover the body. MoNellls's face was terribly burned where tho flesh had been lu contact with the wires. |