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Show WILLIAM NAEF KILLED. Mammmoth, Utah. April 9. William Naef, 25 years of age, met instant death here today by electrocution in an attempt to remove an electric wire which had been broken during a fire which destroyed a five-room frame house and contents belonging to Robert Rob-ert Jermain. One of the ends of wire had fallen so that it was a menace to lives of persons who had gathered while the fire was in progress. Naef sought to push the wire out of reach by the crowd using a long stick for that pur pose. Evidently tne wood was wet and the heavy voltage ordinarily carried car-ried to the Sioux Ajax tunnel, shot through the man's body in reaching connection with the earth. Death was Instant. Mr. Naef came here about' two years ago from Mt. Pleasant. Surviving him are his widow and two small children. chil-dren. The body will be taken to Mt. Pleasant for burial. rtr |