Perils of Electricity.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1668, 26 March 1886, Page 2

Perils of Electricity.

\-i A great-.«erwatr<>n wj^^eQeptly created m" aa American; jtpwn , .by., .an r electrical catastrophe that resulted m the instantaneous death of one man aud the horrid maiming of aViptherl"". The twp r victims' both! Italians, ; were standing together at the qofnertof : a'*fcreet f r oiieiof them ban-' ing agsrinsfc'an: electric J|ght pole, /There -wasji flash of electricity, and instantaneously the man whose back was in' contlct with the .pole dropped down deadjat the feet of his comganipa. The^ latter stop:p>dj*p p.^ but as^oipuG- * 8 * bis^i*ttciftQUched ..'■ tIHSJ rbodyj received- a shock powerful wherellw reclined ii«en*ibl« : imi||^aßij sißtadc6*eatet^ fbunji that the hand that habV' been brought|inj^c(nit»c| with, jbodyS pf mis deceasid g frii»nd%aß guiteibufned to a crisp, the .inJHriea necessitating immediate amputation of thaV 'iiiember. /In,ve|BtigatJon showed that the man who lost his life had^leani^againat-a Upisting y»rire running ialotfgi thel pole from the mam wire to the ground ;. and the body be^coining'etitarigled in'itj when he' fell, jt hy shock was communicated to his companion, who stooped to raise him;Thefwire whicH brought about the double calajnity was being strum? throughout ?the |oyirft^and f np ; current says the Uan papers wh.i<?h relates the accident, ',h&d |be#q, turned biij' 'there beihg'/noycir-: «uiti It is conjectured, thßrefdrpj that it was ' crossed by 'the vrlte ' of : another scorajpany, andthat m this way theilbur-; rent is 'produced; Does not this, further s.uggestithe use of electricity,. in, .giving 1 effect tOj capital punishment?, ,;, . „'