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Show FISHERMAN ELECTROCUTED. Encounters Live Wire in Millrace and Meets Instant Death. Ogden, Utah. William M. Byrne, chief operator for the Utah Power & Light company at Riverside, met death Sunday in a most singular manner. Byrne, with Henry Moore, another power plant operative, entered the mill-race mill-race connected with the power plant on a raft. A wire carrying 220 volts was thrown into the stream and immediately im-mediately some fish came to the surface. sur-face. Excited, Byrne jumped into the water to seize an especially large fish, and was stunned by the electric shock he sustained. As he threw one hand out toward the raft, he touched a charged wire and was electrocuted. |