WORKMAN ELECTROCUTED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13743, 26 May 1910, Page 7

WORKMAN ELECTROCUTED.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN DI7MDIN. (PRESS _BBOCT_rtOJ« TELEGRAM.) . DUNEDIN, May 25. Shortly before three o'clock this afternoon a horriblo accident occurred »tp tiro linemen who wore shifting tho kr tension wiro outside A. and T. Burt's foundry in Cumberland street. James Henderson got his hand upon c-HO of'tho.wires* and was immediately -octroouted. Mr Highloy, foreman for UriiUley and 'Co., saw tho man hanging! across the wire, and went up to hie rescue, but finding all' the wires "litti" he returned, to the ground to gst'itho.power shut off. Before this wss.doue, howeyer, James.Kinch, a aujijtt-jon of Henderson's mounted the Ijdder and attempted to rescue Henderson, frooi his position, but he himself wi caught by one of the'wires and rejsiyed a. terrible shock which left him "aleltis. Mr Highloy ae-Utted to get Kiwa dowh, and upon his removal to thr Hospital he quickly recovered. Henderson was; got to the ground *ith soma difficulty, and it was then wen. that hit. hands were burnt to tho [tone. He was taken to tho Hospital; wt-ejirmination showed that ho *w. Kinch is a. married man, but wnifcreor. was single. V-.jlr R„ Brinsley,'. whose works aro . W oppasito Burt's.-says he heard an • "*l*6io« just like a gun going off. He so-hl' out and observed a man lying over the arm of the post, where he'liad JjNO working. The man who had .wea assisting him slipped down tho •wwr and- ran into Burt's to get the pwer cut off. The head of the injurf« man had drooped by this time, and ""as lying right across tho arm. An«n« rt« n then ran up tho ladder and ifcL i Imnds on tho ,iTe w " ir<js > - ncl ".Be next instant ho laid over the arm . ;«o tiie other man. Then Mr Highley, •■" gre.it personal risk, ran over the '"-e-taiid went up the ladder. He took ■'rcpix with him and fastened tho ZX V£ s Je S s t0 th<> ladder. Ho iM D *, mtklC * handfi off tte ""re. A « c lwer '"' us cufc off - onlvt r v >:^Y iia(?s& s »ys that several on.-xikers called out to the second man vLi t _- uch **« live *'" i *"f s - but he brV o**0 ** £ tako hold « f °™ «n each th« ~ -r*:" 1 ' 0 " "'•as first drawn to by a loud report and a