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Show ' tho jmiIo. Tho body did not fall to1 th.- ground auJ was removed with print dltllctllt. After the lineman had boon roniov--l to the ground the l,ody was quickly quick-ly removed to Dr. W. A. White's hospital hos-pital lu Iyion, where it was discovered discov-ered that the maris Jieart wan ttiil bfatinr. Every effort was made to save the man's life, but he died a few minute ;iltT his arrival at the hospital. Th; body wa- then p. moved to Larkiu & Sons" morcue In thi city, it was found that the loft hand had been badly burned and (here were also terrible burns on the lower part oJ the body. Maydeld had been In the employ of the Davis County DkIh & Power company for more than two year pat and was considered a very competent electrical llneruari. Forcmau Phillips and orflclala of the company are. at a lois to explain Mayfkld's mistake ia trra.spini; tle wrong wire. The deceased war. L'l years of age and unmarried. He was a son of Mr. and Mm. William .;iyfleld, who re-fide re-fide at KarmlDKlon. Davis county. He l.i also survived by several brothers and hlhters. we m ELECTROCUTED A fatal accident occurred at Lay-ton, Lay-ton, a small town 11 miles south of this city, last evening, when Key Maylleld, a lineman employed by the Havis tun;y Eight & l'ower company, com-pany, was electrocuted by gra.cpirig .i high tension wire, carrying 2,3uu volts of electricity. The accident occurp d a few minutes min-utes before tl o'clock ami the unfortunate unfor-tunate man's death was almost lu-Mantanecjus. lu-Mantanecjus. Ills body was horribly burned from coming in contact with the high Vohage wire. Medical aid was rushed to tho scene immediately after tin accident, but all et forts of the physicians failed to revive the spark of life in l,he man's body. I At the time of the accident May-flild May-flild was working with his foreman. T. A. FhlMlps. and was at the top of a pole on whli h was strung the high tension wires oi the power company and also a cable and several other wires of the telephone company. The lineman was connecting up :-ome wire and. according to the stcry of Foreman Fore-man i'lilllips, must have grasped one of the high tension wlier., mistaking It for tine carrying a lighter voltage. The first intimation of fiouble was received by Phillips when he saw .Mayfleld's llnii body fall across (he riozen or more wires which were |