ELECTROCUTED THROUGH WATER
EXTRAORDINARY AMERICAN FATALITY. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] NEW YORK, Oct. 12. A peculiar fatality occurred at los Angeles. A fire started in a boat owing to a defective wire. The engineer, named Alvenas, threw a bucket of water on the blaze. The column of water completed the circuit, and a current of electricity, 26,000 volts m strength, flashed along it and killed Alvenas.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3462, 14 October 1913, Page 5
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65ELECTROCUTED THROUGH WATER Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3462, 14 October 1913, Page 5
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