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Show STRING CARRIES OHMBBEUT "kitPUSSu.coppe" w'Re to fly KITE WHICH COMES IN rnu TACT WITH HbSvJoURRBNT "e 1urned,'wK(!"ed,and Thr" A' injured in-jured When Instrument of Death Is Touehi-rt By Innocent Bystanders 1-0, Angeles, Cnl.-o.io man Is dead, ., ,hB h0S,,ltal w,h tw ": W'a amputated, nnd two others are recovering from mnfu iniutla h t i.S n? Uuy 'uvlng their separate t counters Tuesday night with a weird W Idea "death trap" caused by a live -m10 lV.'r.C WnS n nne co',ner 8trtB J nn which nn unidentified youngster had been HyK klti; with dusk, the boy hnd tied his kite to a telephono pole nnd gone home. Alio upper end of the' string camo In contact with u high tension wlro car. rjlng 31,000 volts. Tho other end of tho wire trailed for a hundred feet nereis lawns In ,L. neighborhood hidden hid-den In the grass. Ithulnhold Klelnstuber, 48, stepping from the front door of Ids home, touch-cd touch-cd tho fatal strings and full dead. Moes Mendull, a neighbor, attempt-od attempt-od to rescue him. A blue streak of flnmo leaped from Klclnstuber's body. Mendall, badly shocked, was dragged from thu death zone by Abraham Skag-laiul. Skag-laiul. A few minutes later William McLaughlin, Mc-Laughlin, schoolboy, playing In the yard of his chum, Karl Payurek, fell to the grass screaming, his hands seemingly on fire. The Pnjurek lad, attempting to aid him, was shocked and knocked several feet nwny. With remarkable presence of mind ho seized n stick and broke the thread which crossed WnilnmVj body, saving the latter1 life. lioth boys were taken to a aospltal. Surgeons amputated two or young Me. Lutighlln's lingers and trentcd both boys for burns nnd beverc shock. -Following tho four nccldcnts In rapid rap-id succession, J. T. Sorenson of tho city power bureau ordered ipower cut off from the entire district while expert ex-pert electricians traced and removed the fatal kite string. |
