KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1270, 5 January 1883, Page 3

KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.

V :V-..V l ''.'' ■'-. '<.* ''{■■•«■;,. .. '. tbat.;the..dange"r of cm-elesslyv tolling ; v ;^-;^^-w4h^ißle(itVic? ltehttf- ;, wiß » r ---ji *4ifciP man i».%;%i)lpy.pf.tlb , trio Jl]uffi.ina,^gPompan'w|ifeff At tho.tim&Mdii'edciveil tWlfalshock Btamnians-..w jurat • work;fehMiging;;;the wires from ,im-old pole, to a ; Owing fejtfemi-i-wised;Keigtrt' tif %o new poieit .'WB.8 4 tafice.Ss'(iiy*:'t9 .lengthen •, tlie wirp,' ahdiWoriler io' do'"tfe witli- . out with' the pummtof .ekctrioity itwas-necessary to-make con* nectioM'Withthe.wira by ."a; loop on eithwspde' of the crossbar, so that - tho mai|Ki^cpiild j bo severed after, both conuM6ns:yere made, Ihe current .the wires wasjof ctyOpQ candlq ppwer, 'i /The weswewhat aift known>as No. 0 .copper wire^'ai).eighth of an incit 1 . inj diameter,, aji(}.;ure, thoroughly loop connexions it wf.s.hpcessary to scrape ; material from the ends'' pf. tne'.jyiri's and connect .the iiakcd-JBntls, V tlie.company aire never to uncover the positive and negative wires at % same time, but to finish one and have'the"naked wire proritly "tsijied'—that is, coverufl-with mm ; tapo prepaid $r thjQJnrpijjije ' '"attempting l-. .to : ".. iuncovir tllOther' wire, Thft'.pble on- which Bfammiins ■•■ was ,* at : work,-- ,was about ; 35ft .in height, und : the wares' to-be manipulated were on the, lowest of the three crossbars, 'He hrid been working about ten or fifteen njinutep when. •Prederick'-Layiiian'; the assistant- foreman- of the. gang' employed in the labor, who was on the sidewalk, at; the. foot of ..the...pole, noticed; that, there, was I something StAimniinsi' v He • was dutcbiiig- both the '-negative' and' the positive vires of the line, ..and was .and ..apparently .lifeless ajsh£t..-i>he wives' stretched on tlie* pole.. ..His.right leg wfts thrown' sver the crossbar,'and he swung iii ; mid-air, tfe to ;fhe .sidewalk. Layman summoned, other linemen, who cliinbed- Hie' polo and? .brought. Stammaiis'.'dowii.. .Hewaa iincoiiscious,' and his- ghastly yappcuran'oti' mdicated:tliat • lie;lind-re .ceiyedia terrible shock. A -physician, was'sutomoned but' ..could [ d.o nothing for'St^iniann,. 1 ' who died .within - ten minutes ftfter. being carried into the-»ta.tion-honse. The only ,' marks ., of violeiice or disfigurement oii the body were oft the jklms of his liantls; ;which' were. jembly' : bij,'med .and.' -blistered, l Stamriiaris '.had received^the electee"' shock w.hich caused his d'catbiliy. carelessly allowing his hands' [to come' in' Mntactsith the ; naked .ends' of "both wir-esipf tlie line, thus.forming an are of what'.is; kijbwn "as'-'tf abort 'circuit, Ijle'eutire'' current (of jelectrictty^pij^ing throug)i' His _body! < ',