The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-25
Thomas Ingram Knocked Down
in Street and Badly Burned
RELEASED WITH ! GUILTY
Teiepf ySScN Which Probably Was
Charge -ym Power Wire Dangled
Into Summer Street, Near Seminary
Street, Where Accident Occurred.

A telephone wire bearing the trans
mission of 2,200-volt wire of the Con-
soiidated Lighting Co.'S spans nearly
brought death to Thomas Ingram of
BGgbee avenue last night around $50
O'Clock and before patrolmen from police
headquarters could reach the spot sev.
eral persons in a crowd of half hum
dred people, that quickly congregated
after the man was found had narrow
escapes from coming in contact with the
surcharged section that dangled so dan
| gerously in the street The accident
happened on Summer street near Sem
mary street, and it is believed that In
| gram stepped on the wire as he went
TO turn the corner after leaving Bupbee
avenue.
The man was discovered bv a small
! boy, although William Black, who heard
a cracking noise as he came down the
Seminary street hill, was soon at his side
and Joseph Gavaghn was also near bv
when Ingram fell. Inside of ten min
| utes help was at hand and the nearly
lifeless body of Ingram was carried to
the house of w. ID. Smith. DR.. !. w.
Stewart was called and he was Joined
a few moments later by Drs. William
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the men who came to Ingrams assist
ance notified the police station. and a
regular was quickly dispatched to Sum
mer street to protect other possible vic
tins from the death-dealing wire Aft
erwards, electricians from the lighting
companys headquarters removed the
danger. The physicians applied resusci-
tatlye measures, but the eIectrocuted
man did not regain consciousness until
some time after he had been at the
City hospital, where he was hurried in
A. w. Badger & Co.'S ambulance.
AT later hour last night he recov-
cred consciousness and was able to talk
for few moments at a time His left
hand, it was said, had been badly burned
ON the inside, and it was feared that
ne might lose the use of a thumb and
fingers. The upper side of the right
hand was also slightly burned, although
the marks indicated that the wire had
merely rested on the flesh, while the
condition of the left hand showed that
the man must have grasped the wire in
his struggles.
Ingram is 81 years old and has a wife
and five children. For the past nine
years he has been employed as a stone.
cutter at the Stephen & Gerard plant,
now operated by Samuel Gerard Ac-
cording to Mrs. Ingram's statement. her
husband left the house last night short
ly after $780, bound for the home of
neighbor on Maple avenue for an evening
at cribbage. In concurrence with 9TH
ers, she believes that the man stepped
On the wire and in some manner grabbed
It with his left hand and was thrown
to the ground. When found. he was
wing in the gutter with the wire rest
ng across his chest
Gavaghan, Black and Others, who car
led the man into the Smith house. say
hat the body was released from the
wire with extreme difficulty. 1t is be-
ieyed that the heavy rain, which start
d in the afternoon, must have caused
power wire to sag onto the telephone
wire which became burned off. Persons
wing in the vicinity say that the lights
eemed to huctuate in brilliancy around
he time that the accident occurred,
nd over on Main street near the corner
I Seminary street. one of the wires,
robably affected by the friction on the
street lines, ignited the limb
tree.
At noon to-day it was stated at the
ospital that Mr.. Ingraim was out Of
anger and that he might be able to
? taken to his home late in the after
oon. The burns in the palm of the left
and were not as deep as was at iirst
alieved and the rapidity with which
he man recovered from the shock led
lie hospital attaches to decide that he
light be taken to his home.
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