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biant!y killed Monday afternoon at ibe Peoples Power Company station, at the police station yesterday afternoon and a verdict was returned that i t i am© to bis death from coming in contact with a live win while per-f*it tiling his du lea at the People’s Power Company plantSix witnesses were examitied by t tie coroner's jury Grant 0 Gwin-of 52u Ma.u aireet, Davenport, Newton Tyrrei «f 2:16 1-3 Perry street, Daven-plt;u ?. James Bahens, of 526 Twenty* second street, Hock island, J Burred, Jones, of B06Ms Fourth avenue, Moline; Dr A. H Arp, of Mdlne, and Cnristy Holdorf, of South Hock Island.The evidence offered by Mr Hold-orf was the most exact of any, and tame nearest to describing the terrible death that the man met.I was working/’ said Mr Holdorf,“about ten feet below Mr Jobana,when I beard a crackling and sizzling' sound On looking up he saw electric flames shooting from the hands and feet »»f Mr Johans, and then saw hits fall backward to the ground, 20 feet below With the others, Mr Holdorf rushed to the prostrate man and tried to revive him until Dr. Arp, who hadbe» n summoned, arrivedDr Arp stated that he found1 a severe burn at the junction of the Index finger and thumb c?f Mr Johans • *i hand and on examining the shoe found Ir so badly burned that he knew there wa« no ♦huiveo to resuscitatethe manFrom the testimony otiered by the oilu r* P I- kn -wn that Mr Johans was engaged in at ringing alternatingarc i gl !*• in the roof of thebudding He bad hung one lamp wl*h Mr Owln and was engaged in rang ng another lt;ne when the accident occurred his head- ranseveral 2206 nod 5000-volt wires Mr Job a us had thrown a rope over the ***•» \»« i wires and wa« evidentlyr**a« h-ng f *r 1 he end of the r«»plt;* when he cl*her ’om his balance and seized hold of the 5000-volt wires to save himself from falling »r in sntne way lt;a rue in contact with the 5000-volt wires and was knocked from the iron »»eam upon which he was standing The beam was “grounded’* and when he touched the wires he formed a circuit with his body and received the full force t»f the terrific voltageSOUTH MOLINE
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Moline Weekly Journal
Moline, Illinois, US
Thu, Apr 13, 1905
Page 4
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