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Show MOTORMAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE : Trolley Wire Parts and Splinters Splint-ers Glass in Window in Pilot's Face . SAIT LAKKi Sept SO. Motorman J. Smulisji of the "Ninth avenue street car, narrowly escaped death by electrocution elec-trocution last vnlght when the trolley 'wire under which the car was passing least on First South and State streets. I parted and one end of it flashed down-' down-' ward, splintering the glass window In till face. I There was a bright 'flash that lit up j the- vicinity as the highly Charged elec-j elec-j trie it carrier struck the car rails automatically au-tomatically breaking the current In I the iowerhouse I Smulleh and K. Ci Jacobson. 827 I Blair street, the conductor, and an unidentified un-identified woman who made all haste to leaVe the car after the accident. I were the only occupants Smullen wa- momentarily dosed bj the force of the breaking Klass in hi I face but otherwise was uninjured. He ! was the only one affected. A pollce-man pollce-man Immediately established a watch loer the wire and the traffic was not I suspended. |