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Show LiaUG STIES I LliEIi 01 POLE; DEI1H FOLLOWS Struck by lightning late yesterday afternoon, a short distance southwest of Clinton, Christopher Hansen, n resident res-ident of Kaysville, died on the way to the Dee hospital In Ogden. Tlfts unfortunate man was employed by the Utah Power and Light company as a lineman nnd had climbed to tho top of a thirty-foot pole on the company's transmission line when the thunderstorm thunder-storm broke. He was adjusting his belt around the cross-arm of the pole when a lightning bolt struck him and a ball of fire seemed to run down the pole. At the same Instant, Hansen was seen by a fellow employe, Ben Flint, to throw up his hands and fall hurtling to the ground. Horrified by the sight Flint rushed to the fallen man and! ascertaining that ho was still alive, lifted him onto tho company's construction con-struction automobile and started for Ogden. In tho meantime another man telephoned to the Dee hospital for assistance as-sistance and a physician met the Improvised Im-provised ambulance on the road. Haft-sen, Haft-sen, however, was past human aid, and died before reaching Ogden. The decedent was 46 years old, and Is survived by his wife. |