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Show BASEBALL PITCHER IS ELECTROCUTED Chicago. March 10. Edward Pierce, a pitcher recently signed by the Decatur De-catur team of the Threo-I league was electrocuted while at work In the stoel mills at Gary, yesterday. Twenty-two Twenty-two thousand volts of electricity passed pass-ed through his body, killing him instantly. in-stantly. Pierce, whose homo was at Worcester, Ohio, had been working at the stee! mills since last. fall. He played with the Dubuque team of. the same leagn last season. |