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Show 11,000 Volts Fatal To ;f Ten Year Old Boy ; 1 ; i ; Last Saturday at 4:10 p. m. Jessie ", La Fay, stepson of C. H. Bullock from -1 Bingham Canyon climbed a trans- ! former pole 8 spans West of 28 Weat on the Bingham road and while reach- j v mg for a bird's nest came in contact I with the 1 1,000 volts and the 110 volts t at the same time, burning him from ! .. the neck to down around the hips. ' -. The boy did not fall from the pole when hit by the high voltage because ; j his foot was caught in a cross arm j, brace. j f- The brace held him there until a -j Mr. Bastain with three other men re- j leased him and brought hin down the i pole. i He was given treatment at Dr. A. ji' J. Hoamer'a and later taken to the jf County Hospital where he died the u, same nig'ht. The fact that the 110 volt system if is grounded at this point caused the switch at the Midvale Substation to trip out, and prevented the boy laying on the wires longer carrying current through his body to the houses served j off of thia transformer. In short it is a known fact that the ; high voltage coming in contact with : a low voltage system that is properly i grounded will not carry through the . ffV tow voltage system but will go to the 1 nearest ground causing either the fuae to blow out or the trip coils at the fa' substation to open. I .... I J .1 :w . uiuy yesieruuy wwiie unviug uiiu Sandy I aaw a small boy about half ,. way up an electric light pole. Getting , the boy down and into the home, 1 wag surprised to hear that the par- ' ; ents had seen the boys up the pole, ' but had not thought enough about it to make them get down and stay down ' |