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Show CUTS WIRE AND DIE3. Man Attempts to Prevent" Conflagra-I Conflagra-I Hon and Loses His Life. HlnsliHm Junction, Utah.- KtHird " Mrlinmilt, a telephone lineman, was liv.tiinlly killed Sunday night by 2.100 Iolts of eloctilclty pustlng thiouch hia body whllo lie was trying to save an r-lertilc piano from limning P The nc blent was caused by one of the main feed ulres of the Progress To-ver company of Murray, which suppllei the town with electricity, coming n contnrt with a guy chain fuppcrtlng an electric sign In front of the Lrader store. In. so dolus, the full current passed Hit ouch the chain and heavlb charged all the elerttic light and telephone tele-phone wlK-n on that transformer in the main business part of the town. A half a doen other people were Injured when thoy went to turn on their lights, and that none of the otheis were killed fl la tegarded as miraculous. |