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Show Lineman Loses His Life in Trying to Save Pal Palnesville, Ohio. A futile attempt of a lineman to save the life of an other who had come in contact with a high tension wire on which they were working two miles east of here, resulted re-sulted in the death of both. Kenneth Collier, twenty-two, of PainesvIIb, was trapped by the wire, and Sheldon Harris, twenty-six, of Perry, was attempting to release him when Collier fell 30 feet to his death, and Harris, grasping the wire himself, died as 33,000 volts passed through his body. The men were installing a "jumper" "jump-er" on a Cleveland Electric Illuminating Illuminat-ing company high-tension line along the New lork Central tracks. The tragedy was witnessed by Clayton Clay-ton Cann of Palnesville and YV. S. Dey of Mentor, Illuminating company employees em-ployees who were at the foot of the pole. They saw Harris beating at Collier's arms In an effort to release him, and a moment later, when Collier fell they tried to catch him. When they looked up again Harris' body was hanging limply from the line, with one of his glove3 In flames. Physicians attributed Collier's death to a fractured skull. |