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id?-fsSAY INSULATORFAILED BEFOREP. E, MOORE DIEDFuneral services for Paul E. Moore, 31, New Cumberland, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Jrties Moore, New Oxford, who was electrocuted Wednesday while working at the Pennsylvania Power and Light sub-statton at New Cumberland, will be held Saturday morning at New Oxford.Further details on the accidental death were revealed today by power company officials. Moor* Was operating an air brake switch at the sub-station adjacent to a power line tower when an Insulator supporting the switch broke and 12,000 volts of electricity coursed down the switch handle into the New Oxford native.While it was believed that he was killed instantly, two fellow workmen applied artificial respiration for more than 90 minutes in an attempt to save his life. He was finally pronounced dead by interns from Harrisburg City Hospital who arrived with the ambulance.Accident Cut Off Powet The accident left the lower end of New Cumberland, the Marsh Runrarea and a stretch of country extending as far as Lisburn without power for about a half hour while workmen re-routed the current.The switch with which Moore wasworking controlled a 12,000-volt linecrossing the Susquehanna at that point.A son of James A. and Corrine Oaster Moore, of New’ Oxford, he is survived by his parents; his wife, Jane D. (Shultz) Moore, two children, Susan V. and Margaret Annr at home; a brother, Earl J., New Oxford, and a sister, Mrs. William Sherdel, McSherrystown.Sendees Saturday He was a member of St. Theresa's Catholic Church, New Cumberland; the Employes and Dependents Association of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7425, New Cumberland. A graduate of Delone Cath-. j olic High School with the Class of j ; 1939, he served Trom October 1, 1943 : to February 12. 1946, including nine j months and 22 days overseas, with • j the Army Air Force in World War ►; n. He was a tail gunner on a B-29 with the 43rd Bombing Squadron.Funeral services Saturday morning with meeting at 8:15 o'clock at the Fred F- Felser Funeral Home followed by a high requiem mass at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's Immaculate Conception Church with the Rev. Robert D- Hartnett celebrant Interment in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening alter 7 o'clock. Prayers will be recited at the church at 7 o'clock Friday evening.~ rl 63 OtOMlU lt;1 t- tt
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jun 28, 1952
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