Show STRING CARRIES I 1 DEATH CURRENT LAD USES COPPER WIRE TO FLY KITE WHICH COMES IN CONTACT WITH HEAVY CURRENT one man Is killed and three are injured when instrument of death Is touched by innocent bystanders los angeles col one man is if dead 1 I boy is in the hospital with two lingers liners fillers ers amputated ant and two others are 1 recovering I from painful injuries here wednesday following their separate encounters tuesday night flight with ft a weird hidden death trap caused by a ahe wire the wire was as a fine copper string with altot which an unidentified youngster had been flying dying a kite with dusk the boy ind had tied his hia kite to a telephone pole and gone home the upper end of the string canie came in contact with a high tension wire carrying volts the other end of the wire trailed for a hundred feet cross lawns in the neighborhood hid flon den in the grass rheinhold kleinstuber 48 stepping from the front door of his home touched the fatal strings and fell dead moses mendall a neighbor attempted to rescue him A blue streak of laute hame leaped from KIens Klens tubers body blendall badly shocked was dragged from the death zone by abraham skag land and A few minutes later william mclaughlin schoolboy playing in the yard rard of his chum earl fell to the grass screaming his hands hand seemingly on fire alre the lad ad attempting to ald aid him was shocked and knocked several feet away with remarkable presence of mind lie he seized a stick and broke the thread which abich crossed williams body saving the batters lat life both boys ni were ere taken to a hospital surgeons amputated two of young me mc laughlina Laugh lins fingers and treated both boys tor for burns and severe shock Follo following whig the tour four accidents in ra rap p id succession J T ot of the city power bureau ordered power cut oft off from the entire district while expert electricians traced and removed the fatal kite string |