MAN ELECTROCUTED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10133, 10 June 1924, Page 5

MAN ELECTROCUTED.

TRAGIC FRENCH AFFABR.

SEQUEL TO ARGUMENT.

ELECTRICIAN BURNT UP.

(Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.)

PARIS, June 9. An extraordinary fatality at St. Die occurred as the result of a controversy between two electricians a® to the lethal power of electric current. One named Royer insisted that it was possible without danger to climb to the I top of a standard carrying high-tension current, provided he did not touch the wires. He proceeded to climb a standard, to which wires carrying a current of 65,000 volts were attached. As he neared the top, his companion heard a tremendous report and saw Royer's , body disappear in flames, literally car- I bonised by the current. Every shred of his clothing had vanished.

A TERRIBLE CHOICE. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 9. Six men working in an enamel oven at an auto plant at Chicago became trapped. The only chance of escape was a choice of dashing through a wall of flame or wading through a vat of boiling paint. Four chose the former and died. The others waded through the vat and escaped, though badly burnt.