The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-30
ONE MAN Dead
TWO |NJuR6
Farley Pratt, Carpenter
Church Buildings, Is EIec.
trOcuted.
CECIL MATTHEW'S AND
W. NJ. COLE SHOCK|
Steel Pole Comes Into Conf,
With Street Railway Com
pany's Wire. 81

While swinging q large steel pine &
position on the roof OF the new ha.<
plant of the Mormon church b,,sI6s~
under course of construction I'm the h
die Of the block Just west of the tAs,,
one man was almost instantly elee<
cuted at 1l;is O'Clock Tuesday morn
and two opers badly injured az tire
suit Of the pipe coming In contact :,
The high voltage wire Of the Utah a.
& Railway company. which supplies IN
for part OF the block 80
PARLEY P. PRATT, carpenter
40 years, married,
Injured.
Cecil Matthews, carpenters heIpsr,
years old, unmarried; badly shocked
MAY be partially paralyzed.
w. M. Cole, laborer. aged So yeaxH.
neck.
The three men were engaged in nj
Ing an eight-inch pipe into position Ia
tower used TO carry cement for
snokestack of the heating plant, WI
when completed, will furnish power
nSal ioT III OF the buildings OWue0
the Mormon church In the northern /
OF the business district. Including
temple, tabernacle. Assembly hall, N
Utah. Administration building. L. D
university, Barratt hall, Sharon build
Deseret News building. Bureau of n
nation and the Vermont building.
ropes that were attached TO che
steel pipe slipped, letting the pipe
on the high tension wires, which I
alongside the roof Of the building.
Quick Death.
With a flash resembling the striI
OF a thunder bolt, Pratt and Matth
were thrown TO the floor. Pratt 1
almost instantly. Several thousand V
OF electricity must have passed ti1ro
his body, as the flesh was not Z
| burned.
AS the pipe swung around one END
| Cole, knocking him down. He was 1
| ly burned about the face and mock
! was shocked also. That others wor1
| on the smokestack at the time wer6'
| shocked and perhaps killed by tha
mendous voltage which went cotir'
| through the pipe upon coming into
tact with the wires is considered aln
! miraculous.
The police department was notified
| the accident and Patrolmen George n
| lips. j, G.. Armstrong. p. +. Giles
James Beckstead hurried 10 tho tec'
In the meantime fellow workers had
| moved the pipe from the wires and q
| the injured men all possible assiBf1
Upon their arrival the -four officer
excellent work in getting the men to
ground Phillips hurried up the Lad
! only to return within q few minutes
the information that one man was 4
and the other two men were In sci
condition. The two police autos wer9
mediately summoned DR.. II. A. ]
| n ri
pronounced Pratt dead. The body
Pratt and the two injured mon
| lowered TO tic ground by means OF n :
fold prepared by the men on the
of the building. e
Might Have Been Saved
IT was not until more than half
hour after the accident that the bod
Pratt and the other two men werD Y
cred to the ground. AS Pratt ,did
die until few minutes after the q
| dent, DR. Hosmcr said that II his fe
workers had possessed the presepc<
mind TO keep up temporary rcspif1
his life might have been saved
Matthew's condition was pitiahi6
he was hurried to the Holy. Cross
pital. 1t Is thought that he VIII.
cover. although he may be. part
paralzed as the result OF the shock.
some timc after ne was taken 20.
hospital he was unable TO move T.
Gle I.e is thought that the muscle
| the throat. connected with the iar
are paralyzed and that ne may neve
able TO speak again. Tuesday Digh'
understood what was said to him.
could make no answer,
Cole was taken to the office or
IIosmer. where his injuries were att'
ed 10. His condition was not as ser
as that OF Matthews. The side OF.
head and neck were burned. WheIc
came in contact with the charged Wn
Timekecper W. ]. Powell was IN en-
of the work, which is being done "
Trent Engineering company. and as
rs he saw the fash he rushed up tno
der TO do what he could for INC. inl
men. Pratt did not say word aftof
Power Gut oh.
When the steel pipe came irto
tact with the wire. the entire seryi"
the Utah Light & Railway conpsn5
put out OF commission, tho power o.
knocked ont at the central station
power was of only for m;nute
ever, when il was cut TN again
Pratt was a native OF Utah. lie "
q widow and two children. He ~
former resident OF Vernat AZ TING
of his death he resided with his fe
al $40 North Third West street: he
member Of local No. lS4. Brothern2o
Carpenters. Business Agent Wnkes
the Cerpenters' union notified MIS-.
| of the death OF her husband /.
| Matthews has been resident ot|
city for more than year lie Is
| IN live at downtown roomIng nol
cole has resided In Salt Lake CITY
| about II year.