Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — Killed By Electric Wire. [ARTICLE]

Killed By Electric Wire.

John Strickler, a lineman .'or the Kentlacd Electric Light Co., was killed Wednesday night daring the wind and rain storm by an electric wire he was repairing. Strickle**, in company with a boy, had gone to investigate the cause of an arc light that had gone ont. He found the wire to be broken and picked np one end of it and, in the darkness, stepped on to the other wire, thus completing a circuit. He was killed instantly, the wires being charged with abont volts ot Strickler was married and leaves a wife and five children. “Never touch a live wire, give it the right-of-way, take off your hat to it,” was Electrician Jack Montgomery’s comment.