ENGINEER ELECTROCUTED.
A WATER-COMPLETED CIRCUIT. /• (Received S.o a.m.) [By Electric Telegraph —Copyright! Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. New York, October 12. A peculiar fatality occurred at Los Angeles. A fire, started on a boat owing to. a defective wire. The engineer, Alvenas, threw a bucket of water on the blaze, but the column of water completed the circuit and tin current of electricity, which was of 20,000 volts strength, flashed along it and killed Alvenas.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 13 October 1913, Page 5
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74ENGINEER ELECTROCUTED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 13 October 1913, Page 5
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