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Show HORSE ELECTROCUTED; RIDER ESCAPES INJURY One of Webster Bettridge's work horses dropped dead last Friday evening ev-ening as his boy was riding it on the end of a derrick rope to unload hay in John T. Mitchell's barn. Webster thinks the horse was electrocuted as the wire fence near the barn was charged with electricity and he says the horse touched it. Wires .'used to convey electricity for lighting the barn had broken some time ago and were fastened up on the fence to be out of the way, winch accounts for the fence's being charged. The boy jumped clear of the horse when it fell, and denies that he felt any shock, but he was terribly excited and his father isn't clear as to whether he felt the charge or didn't. Webster states that he received re-ceived a shock when he took hold of the fallen horses's bridle. Parowan Times. |