Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1916 — Two Boys Meet Terrible Accident at Goodland. [ARTICLE]

Two Boys Meet Terrible Accident at Goodland.

Brook Reporter. David and Edward Jessup, aged 12 and 10 years, were terribly injured Friday, near their heme in Goodland, and the former died in a Lafayette hospital Saturday by coming in contact with a high voltage live wire. It seems that the boys crawled to the top of a freight car and from there to the top of a shed over which passed the high voltage wires of the Interstate Public Service Company. These wires carry 33,000 volts. Just what the boys done is not known, but an instant after the eldest boy either grasped oi came in contact with the wire he was seen by a car repairer working near, who stated that the boy was jerked about by the high current like a flag in a breeze and that he rushed to the rescue, but the mother of the boys, who was near, was quicker and reached the boy first and grasping his clothes pulled him loose from the wire. In the meantime the smaller boy in some way came in contact with the wire and was also horribly burned. Both of the boys were living when taken down and they were immediately rushed to a Lafayette hospital, where the oldest boy died on Saturday morning, but at last reports ""the youngest is getting better and there is hopes of his recovery. The JCssups are newcomers in Goodland, the father being a brakeman on the C. &E. I. railroad. No one seems to understand how it was possible to come in contact with this high voltage and not be instantly killed.