A TERRIBLE DEATH.
Details have jut come to hand of the death at Cincinnati of A .iron Lyman, a lineman employed by the Cincinnati Electric Light Company. While at work on a pole he fell and was caught cm several wires, his throat resting on an electric light wire. Thousands gathered, but could do nothing for him. His face was turned downward, and the eyes stared appealingly to tho people beloAV. Blue tongues of thine sputtered and darted from all over his body. From the linger tips rolled green balls that danced from wire to wire, and finally spent thcr force and disappeared. From his eyes darted fiery flames, while every hair on his head was the receptacle of a portion of the fluid that was rapidly destroying life. Suddenly a shower of red liquid fell to the ground below, staining tho upturned faces and clothing of tho spcc’ators. It was the life blood of the unfortunate man. The sizzling wire had burned its way to the veins in the throat. The pour fellow was soon beyond all earthly suffering. When at last the electric company were notified, and the current shut oil', it was found the victim was literally’ cooked from foot to head.
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Evening Star, Issue 9771, 30 July 1895, Page 3
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205A TERRIBLE DEATH. Evening Star, Issue 9771, 30 July 1895, Page 3
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