New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-04
THE CURRENT KILLED HIM.
PORTER STRUCK DEAD WHILE RE-
PAIRING AN ELECTRIC FAN.
HE WAS STANDING oN AN IRON RADIATOR IN
BROADWAY DRYGOOps STORE -CONsTERNA-
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FACTS ABOUT IT.
Lawrence Arnold. twenty-thrcc years old. Of
No lO9 East Ninth-st. was killed with electricity
yesterday afternoon al Jacksons drygoods store.
at No III Broadway while repairing an electric
fan on the second floor The people in charge
maintained the utmost secrecy IN regard TO
the accident. There we're several other peeu-
liar occurrences in connection with IT, a
policeman was locked in room. with the body OF
the dead man and was thus forcn'y kept from
giving any particulars Of the affair. Then.
also. people want to know why ST. Nincents
Hospital did not send IN ambulance in response
to three different calls which were said 10 have
been sent for 1t.
Arnold a porter in the d!ygo0ds mousse
where he was killed. As far could be learned
he set to work about 100 p m. to repair an
electric fan in the rear of the cloak department,
which is small room at the head Of the main
stairway Beneath the fan stands a radiator. In
order 10 reach the far Arnold stood upon the
radiator He had been working at the fan only
a few minutes when those in the room hetrd
sort Of a stifled cry. and. as they looked ui sa"
the porters body sway backward and fail heaNy
to the floor
AMBULANCEs CALLED IN VAIN
place. Women customers and girl attendants
screamed together as they stood looking al 'he
body made lfeless II an instant a man ran oaTe-
headed out Of the place and into an express once
on the corner where he asked that an ambulance
no rung for one OF the employees telephoned !"
ST Vincent's Hospital. but as time passed by no
ambulance appeared second summons was
then sent but 1t also remained unanswered. as
did third. , ,.,,o,.,.
calls were then sent 70 Ncw-Nork and B'leVue
Hospitals ana an ambulance iroh 'hr 1N Nv .,N 49,,
arrived fully thrce-quart"rs or an h'ur d'''' wv
fret call had been sent out.
After the accident the porterS boiy Wa ca ~
int, a fitting-roOm in the corner "l H .'
deDartrnent Policeman Moran. ~ thc M,l.e'-
q, station was sent - take charge 81 IL Nh'h
,bo ronnrters tried to gee Moran tncy found hlhi
locked in the httng-roOm the door OF whlch wac
CLOSELY guarded by man and woman cieIh'
4 reportpr happened 10 meet Coroner Shea III
noIghboring store He said he would inquire INTO
the affair. although the case be ioheau - Doi ,
Dobbs He got disgusted with his inquiry now
over after Intervening the cloSe-mouhed en-
plOyes Al the store.
PROBABLE CAUSE or THE DEATH
The only explanation # Arnold's death Is mat
while standing on the radiator he t"uch'" VIII"
his hand a badly insulated wire. The radiator IN
such an instance would form a powerful circuit
for the deadly current which passed through ms
body Whether or not the man DouH "d' p"
ar m, fl .sh scorched by the current could not De
learned. aAua-or
Arnold leaves n young widow but no chiIiI,n'
The accident gives cause for rear 81 tei,IuVi., "a
of IT, owing 10 the extens' ." use "' e'e'''i' ~ "
,he large stores Heretofore they have np' p""h
cnne,der-1 in any way dangerous. as II va
no, thought that a sufficient force Oi electIlCi'y
was generf ted TO cause d@aN