Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-07
Two Electric Light Linemsn Meet
Sudden Death.
KILLED BY A RUNAWAY TEAM.
Nurse Falls Down Stairs aud is Killed
100 Feet over n Prtcipice
Fight over a Cow.

aged 35 yeafs, while working On q
tnreshing macbiue at Pacific Beac
Gal, Satu tdAy morning, was killed by
derrick beam whick swung around
unex prcteuiy and struck him on tu'
hesu, crushing uis skull. The unfor-
tuuate man uied Ia wagon while
waning Tor medical aid. He leaves 4
widow and family.
MrR. Jennie Noble, aged 81 years,
mel Instant death Sunday AFTERNOON al
Redwood, Cal. She was caring fol
several cniliren during the temporary
abe c. the parents, and, witt IN
~ 1t In her arms, ascended Il lRh
Of elk or eight sleps leading to tbs
Kitchen door. In come II naccou table
way she fell backward, striking on tho
back OF her head. Her neck was
broken. Tae infant escaped unhurt.
Miss Nellie Fetter, a young luJy
employed in shooting gallery a..
luisre, Cal, shot aad mOrtally
woundeI II. Fletcher OF HaaforI
saturday night. Miss Fetter hn
loaded tae gun for one OF her custo-
mers and was reaching It out to him,
pointed toward the crowd OF spectators,
when for come unaccOuntable reason
the gun was dischstgt d, 10 22-caiibet
ball passing through the abdomen
Fletcher, a young farmer.
A fatal accident occurred about fou I
niles west o. Asotin, Wash ngton +,
recently. William Chambers, Is years
old, anu his stepfather, John Walters,
prominent stookmsn OF Asotin
county, were hunting a bob.cat tha at
Dad been catching chickens, and
chased 1t to the etge Of a precipice,
when Chambers, In his eagerness to
XIII the animal, got too near the edge
and clipped over. falling a distance oil
100 feel, killing MIN instantly.
A few evening ago, just as tn Orc.
gon Railway aud Nav CATION train
wss pulling out OF tho Wslla Waila
station for Spokane, Washington, say d.
the waiia walla Unions man rusheu
up to the porter nDo, placing baby
In hie arms, etaied, breathlesBiy; "rake
his baby to Spokane. Some one wi
meet yuu at tue depot there to get !"
Toe Betonished porter took the baoy;
the man disappeared In the crOwJ.
A Spokane map came forward ~
the train pulled in and claimed the
baby.
II. e. Arnett, the man who 10 iu
jail at San AndTess, California, await.
lug trial Tor the murder OF his wife IL
Angels Camp recently. is rs sullen
and mOrose as wild beast in cay
livity. 1t IL pniu by one OF the pris-
opers In a cell mkt to his, that hp
frequently cries or walls during the
night, probably the result OF night
mare toeetner with the thoughts OF 10
terrible crime, which seems t. haunt
him during his sleep. His pcliL ne
would iadioste that his line Of defense
Will be insanity.
On Saturday Peter Stoller aud wife
Of Vancouver, h. g., went to Shaw,
islsni in the Columbia to pick black
berries. While so engaged man
named Millham, herdipg cattle on the
STAND, ordered them of. Stroller cay
that neither he nor his wife remon.
slrhted with Millham and proceedea
TO obey his order, but while they were
doing 80 he Ievelod a double-barrelsu
shotgun at them, uisohsrgiDg both
oarteie. One OF the charges took IL Ut,
striking Mrs. Stroller in the shoulder
anu shhtteripg her bosom. Mrs. Strol.
Ter is IN delicate health and her copdi.
ton Is dangerous. Millharn lie yet nj
large.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Johns)n,
qniei. orderly woman living In the
outskirts oi Stockton, GAL, had d.
tute With a neighbor over the actions
OF the latter's CIV that had been tres.
passing on her land. The neigh Dor,
Mrs. Travis, held the cow for Ransom,
aud would not deliver 1t to tho owner
without recompense for the damage
IN her property, which was slight.
Angry words followed, ami then the
,uoepsed Mrs. Travis set upon tho
wner OF the offending cow ana beat
her into insensibillty with rop,,
aided by young mau named Cnanc-
Ter, VINO welded u clu0. Mrs. John.
son probably will die.
Sudden death from an elect rio
shock came Saturday TO Frank Nc.
A.ee while he was working at his uu-
,es OF lin, man for the Los ANGLER,
Cal. electric conn any. The accident
occurred h broad dayilghLin iuli ght
VI the crowds that hurry along Sprlu
street, and caused great excitsm ut.
shortly after McAtee had CHM bed an
electric light pole tbs people ON the
street heard u loud scream. McAtes
had come In contact with q live W re,
aud his body hung Imply against the
pole supported by the belt which
passed around his body and then
around the pole. Two men clam bereJ
up the pole and brought the lineman
down, but he was past medical aid,
ana died few nom snts later. he was
2S years OF age and unmarried.
George Frost, a lineman in the TN,
pIoy OF the Edison Ia hit and pow or
ompany In San Francisco, was killed
morning by falling from an
electric light pole. At the time Of the
accident no was standing by t he aid OF
bis spurs on the pole below the crots-
Trees, hiking wire. One OF the spurs
broke, and he was thrown to the pave
ment thirty feet below. In falling
Frost struck q guy wire, which turned
him over aud precipitated him to the
ground heal nrsl. His skull wss
badly crushed, but he was still alive
when picket up by the men who were
with him. He was conveyed
10 the hospital and died ten minutes
alter arriving there. Frost was nn
experienced linemAn. He leaves
vie ana four chilIren.
At Redwood City. CAL, Sunday, NJ.
), Miguel and another man named
Davis, were driving 0 spiritsu team at
lached to a light spriug wagon loalsu