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Show BEAVER FARMER : IS ELECTROCUTED Marlon Spencer White, of Ilea-' ver was electrocuted at " p. in. Monday Mon-day when a derrick on which be wa-working wa-working in the fields two miles wcM . of Heaver came in contact with high tension wires of the Tellurule power line connecting Milford with tl'.e Heaver plants of the power company in Heaver canyon. All wetern Heaver county was without power the latter part of the afternoon, due to the mishap the firt time theie has been any lengthy ce-.-ation ol Hwer service in several months. The trouble with the line w-a found and remedied quickly enough but the delay de-lay came about by reason of tne necessity ne-cessity for contacting all trouble -hooters out on the lirv bet ore ser-, vice ivuld be resume. I. : White was attempting to remove a chain from the lower end of the der-, rick, assisted by William Heaumvnt and Warren Gillies. The cable on the! derrick touched the wires and sent the current to the chain which Whi'e was contacting'. The body was charred beyond recognition and fifty tons of hay in a .-tack burred. Mr. White was born in Noveml",1 1900. a son of the late Mr. and Mrs.! Charles White. Brothers and sisters! surviving are: Azman White, Ca!i-j fornia; Hortense White, Salt Lake;, Edna White, New York; half-brothers and sisters: Dr. Edgar White,1 Tremonton; Mrs. Lulla Storrs, Fland-1 reau, S. D.; Mrs. Telka Robinson and C. Dennis White, Beaver. , |