Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — HEAT CAUSES DEATH. [ARTICLE]

HEAT CAUSES DEATH.

Lineman Shocked to Death When Moist Shirt Touches Live Wire. Lafayette, Ind., June 23.—Edward Klinker, age thirty-five, a lineman in the employ of the Lafayette Telephone Company, met a tragic death this morning in front of the Wabasji Valley sanatorium, an institution connect ed with the Seventh Day Adventist church, two miles north of this city. Klinker was replacing a worn out cross arm on a telephone pole and because of the extreme heat he had removed his coat and hat. In some manner his shirt, wet with perspiration, ca I me in contact with a 2,200 volt wire of the Indiana Lighting Company and he fell to the ground, a distance of twenty-five feet. When Roy Ross and Elmei* Marsteller, fellow workmen, reached him, he was dead. The telephone company officials believe that Klinker was overcome by the heat and fell against the high tension wire. The man’s body was only slightly burned • A widow and three children survive. Klinker was a member of the Catholic church and the Catholic Order of Foresters. A year ago he was badly hurt by falling from a telephone pole and had only recently renewed his position with the telephone company. The accident so unnerved the rest of the lineman at work on the wires that they quit for the dav.

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