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Show CHILD !S KILLED BY FALLING POLE i Little John Farnsworth, On His Way to School, Is Crushed to Death Workmen Removing a Telephone Pole Accidentally Allow the Heavy Piece of Timber to Fall on Sidewalk , Where the Boy Was Standing. ' ... While on his way to school this morning John Farnsworth, the nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Farnsworth, 291 Twenty-first street, was struck by a falling tele-phono tele-phono pole and instantly Idlled. The fatality occurred at the corner of Grant avenue and Twenty-second streot The little boy IeTt home at about S:30 to go to the Grant school. At tho corner of Grant avenue and Twenty-second street workmen employed by the Bell Telephone company were taWng down a pole of tho Independent system Tho child pauBed on thti sidewalk to wach the operation and stood eating candy Suddenly, without with-out warning, the heavy timber toppled over and Instead of falling as it should upon the road foil upon tho sidewalk, pinning the child boneath. The pole struck tho boy squarely upon the head, crushing the 6kull and causing caus-ing immedlato death. The men In charge of the lowering of the pole wore C C Cunningham, foreman, and D. M. Smith ' and S. Burch, linemen All of the "men witnessed wit-nessed the death of the child and are said to havo shouted, but too lato, for the boy to run when the pole-got pole-got beyond their control. The accident cast a gloom oo the entire Grant school, of which the un-fortunato un-fortunato boy was a pupil In the third grade Teachers and children wept over tho sad death and lessons were for a time forgotten. The bodv of the child was taken to tho L-Indqulst undertaking parlors. |