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Show MACHINIST KILLED BY ELECTRIC CURRENT SALT LAKE, May 22. Charles Killer, Kil-ler, 40 years of age, a machinist employed em-ployed in tho yards of the Denver & Rio Grando railroad, died five minutes after reaching St. Mark's hospital yesterday yes-terday from the effects of accidental electrocution wJiilo working with an Imperfectly insulated drop light on a locomotive cylinder. Hlllor had wrapped the wire of tho drop light around a bolt on tho cylinder. cylin-der. When he touched the metal a current of 220 volts went through his body. It was several minutes bofore his fellow workers, attracted by his cries, succeeded in liberating him. Efforts Ef-forts to resuscitate him with a pul-motor pul-motor failed. Hlller, who was unmarried, Is survived sur-vived by his mother, residing at 418 K street oo |