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Show TWO KILLED BY CHARGED WIRE Principal and Janitor of Mi. Pleasant School Meet Tragic Death SALT LAKE, March 24. Kanute Porkl80n, Janitor of the Mount Pleasant, Pleas-ant, Utah, public school, unci Elmer Johansen, the principal, were electrocuted electro-cuted today h"n they came In contact con-tact with an elcetilc wire In the school basement PcrKlnson evidently met his death about 5 o'clock this morning, morn-ing, when h went to the school to start the heating plant and John risen was electrocuted when he went to the basement at 9 o'clock to ascertain why the fires had not been startod. The wire which caused the death of tin- men was of the common electric light variety across which a high voltage volt-age power wire had fallen durins a windstorm last . night. |