ELECTRICIAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 38, 14 February 1910, Page 4

ELECTRICIAN.

—: : MELBOURNE, February 3. ] A young man, Albert McCov, was in- '■ stantly killed at Carlton this" afternoon ' ' By an electric shock. McCoy and others, ' employed in the electric lighting works I, of the Melbourne City Council, were f altering the position of the line, through ! , which a current equal to 400 volts was ' < passing. For the pnrp.se of doing so, I, they were on a pole about 25 feet above i i the ground, McCoy being at a higher ele- ! : ■.ation than his fellow workmen. The i < workmen on the lower level suddenly! • heard a shout from one of the men, and i i ooking up saw him endeavouring to re- I * lease McCoy, who appeared to be tangled j c ™„f Tr 3 ;- He had *PV***>*>y one of the lines accidentally with both I'< hands, and was immediately rendered un- > 1 conscious. They promptly chopped the 1 wire down, and by the manipulation of l W?th* f TerS - d ? IcC - y t0 the VV ithin five minutes he was in the Melbourne Hospital. He was then apparentlydead, but measures were employed ' t to restore animation. Heart massaJ. was I wort 6 / althnu g h theXtW worked assaduously for nearly an hour they failed m their object. McCov was about 28 y ears of age^ and f^MJM^