BURNED BY ELECTRICITY. The Horrible Accident that Befell a Nebraska Man.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 228, 12 November 1887, Page 7

BURNED BY ELECTRICITY. The Horrible Accident that Befell a Nebraska Man.

A working . man named Smith was terribly mutilated in a remarkable manner on September 22nd on 0 street, at the corner of Ninth. Hanging from a telegraph pole, and lying along the ground for a distance, Mas a broken telephone wire, which had in some manner become crossed or in connection with one of fcho electric light wires. As Smith was passing along the street 'he saw the wire burning, and, attracted by the sLranije appearance, and not realising what it was, took hold of it to examine its The shock he received was terrific, and his shrieks brought hundreds to the street. He could not loosen his hold on the wire, and it burned his hands to the bone. In his writhings and contortions •the. charged wirp came in contact with his head, burning out one of his eyes and laying the side of his face open. Wherever it struck his body it cut like a knife. A bystander, realising the peril of the man, ran to him and grabbed him to pull him from the wire, but, by the shock he received when he came in contact with the body of the man, he was knocked ten feet into the street and utterly prostrated, so that it was feared he was 'lulled. By this time the electricity had either burned the man Smith loos© from the wire or he had succeeded in his struggles in breaking away. He was picked up and carried into an adjoining restaurant and a half dozen physicians summoned. The man presented ■a , horrible appearance, and despite the physicians' efforts to put him under the influence of morphine, he shrieked and writhed in the agony he suffered until taken to the hospital.

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