Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — WET HAT CAUSES BOY'S DEATH [ARTICLE]

WET HAT CAUSES BOY'S DEATH

Headgear Gomes in Contact With a 7 Sagging Live Wire. At South Bend, Ind., Albert E. Kable, sixteen years old, was electrocuted when his hat, wet by rain, cable in contact with a sagging guy wire attached to an electric light pole. The gjiy wire had become crossed with a live wire. Snow, which fell here to a depth of five inches, was responsible for the sagging of the wire. Young Kable’s death was instantaneous.