Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1916 — Boy Killed By Live Wire at Goodland. [ARTICLE]

Boy Killed By Live Wire at Goodland.

David Jessup, aged twelve? is dead, his brother, Edward, aged ten years, is in a very serious condition and the mother of the two boys js near death from prostratoin at her home as a result of an accident in Goodland Friday afternoon about 4 o’clock. David Jessup took hold of an electric wire carrying 33,000 volts and his younger brother tried to rescue him. The boys were rushed to the St. Elizabeth hospital at Lafayettte where David died about noon Saturday. The boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Jessup of Goodland. The younger boy was still alive Saturday afternoon, but was suffering terribly from his bums. The accident happened at the Goodland power plant.