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Show KILLED WHILE AT WORK ON WIRES Morris Fretwell, a malntalner in the signal service of the Southern Fa ciflc company, was InstantK killed yesterday morning when his bed came in contact with a high tension wire as he was at work on a trans former on a pole north of the railroad rail-road bridge, at the f"0t of Twenty first street For a half hour after electrocution had taken place, the man's body hung limply from th- iole by the lineman's strap and spurs Cpon being notified , bv a train crew . Superintendent E. W Newcomb and R. C. Toombs of the signal service went iu me iioir- ann removed the body with the assistance nf the pOllce and the body was taken to the Darkin I'ndcrt iking parlors. The fuse iu the transformer upon whit h tie was working had been blown out and it is belleveJ that Fret well observed that something wan I wrong as Ik walked along the track. Thefe are numerous wires on the pole and some earn as much as 11,. nun volts before the current Is re-duced re-duced x bile working on the transformer, trans-former, his elbow came in contact with one of the high voltage wires and death resulted. Fretwell has been employed in the signal service during the past seven years. His home was in West Weber A wife and I wo children, Iouis, 9 ears. and Clifford, fi years, survive blm, and also a mother Mrs Marv VattiJ Fretwell. and to brothers and two sisters. George E, Frank W. Mtb. D B Donaldson, ami Mrs. H. F i Donaldson Funeral services will be held in the ptrst Ward meeting house at 2 p in , Wednesday Bishop George Etherlng ton presiding. Tho body will Ue lu state at the hem? in West Weber this Hve-uink-' and i n- l;i and on Wedn. s da. n will be brought to the home of his uncle, E j Wattle. 064 Twenty , Ightb street, where the casket Will be open from 10 a. m. to 1 p m Tho funeral cortege will form at thw Wai lis home and proceed to the- Firs: Ward meeting house Interment in Ogden City cemetery. |