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Show BODY IS BURNED BY ELECTRICITY SALT LAKE, May 3 His body penetrated pen-etrated and burned alraoat to a erit-p In many places by C0U0 volts of electricity elec-tricity carried-by a feed wire, A. 12. VaiiKhn. 33 years old, better known anions followers of the thccs h.h "Checkers" Vaughn fell from tho top of a street pole at Eighth South and State street, at 9:20 o'clock this morning. morn-ing. He died as the-police patrol wagon drew up to the emergency hospital hos-pital at the police station. The faul accident was witnessed by a score of men digging a trench on ElRhth South Ktreet for the Utah Gas and Coke company , The foreman fore-man of the crew, JM y. Anderson, living liv-ing on Third North street, between Second and Third West streets, rush-ed rush-ed to Vaughn's assistance as he saw him fall, followed by other men, who crawled up lrom the trench, and by Vaughn's helpers, -who were also on the top of electric poles painting. Vaughn wos apparently dead when they reached his side. Anderson telephoned tele-phoned to tbe police station. When seen a few minutes after the accident j Anderson said: v"Juo noaA .who waa killed, I don't anaibout'Vhe beal'as of It I f1 In contact, ..wJHi red .hot. Irpnfc 1 body v;ts sizzling whJen tlip unof "crs. first looked at It '- -. :1-' j know his name, had been on the polo painting about teo minutes, when I heard him cry out as If in great pain. As I looked up to where he had been working ho fell to the ground. I noticed a Hash ot fire near one of his feet, which was on a cross bar and near his hands which were placed on the other cross bar. then be fell to the ground. His body was black and burned when we reached him and we all 'ithought he wns dead. He didn't say anything, he JuM screamed scream-ed " Anderson's story was corrr.bor.itel b Carl Lundqulst. one of tho men digglug In the trench, and by other laborers, la-borers, who left their work and ran to the dying mans assistance. Dies on the Road. When th police were notified of the accldcut Patrolman Glllbjpte and Barker and Patrol Driver Moore were sent o;U to bring Vansbn to the emergency emer-gency hospital. Although the horses were driven with all possible speed to and from the scene of the accident, the heavv electric shock claimed Irs lctim before the man could bo given medical attention, which in this ca?o would probably have been, of no avail bad Vaughn lived until a physician could be summoned. Vaurrhn's hody was removed to the O'Donnell ' undertaking, ronrn?, where an effort Is belnV mode to locate lils rvlnilveu-vrho are thought to bo in tho east, although no one who knew the man In Salt Lake City can tell where he lived before coming west several years ago. When examined at tho undertaking establishment Vaughn s body was ly-ind to bo burned on the lett 6ide |