Workman Burned to Death
High Tension Electric Accident on Tideflats Kills One, Injures Another
One many was instantly killed and a second fearfully burned at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when a crane swung a cable into a 13,000 volt high tension line at the old Peterman Manufacturing Co. plant on the tideflats.
Earnest A. Locke, 56, of Rte. 1, Yelm, was standing on a truck, holding a hoisting cable when the crane being used by the General Construction Co. in dismantling the plant was being swung around. The cable, on touching the high tension wires, was instantly charged, so that the full voltage struck the workman's body.
Locke, in falling off the truck, tumbled into the arms of another workman, George Hines, 59, of 3632 Fawcett Avenue, police said. Hines was also seriously burned by the high voltage. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where attendants said his condition was serious Wednesday afternoon.
Original newspaper obituary, kept among Emma Cordelia Locke's possessions:
Funeral
Locke-Funeral services for Ernest A. Locke, 55, victim of electric shock at a Tacoma mill Wednesday, will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Tuell chapel. Locke was a native of Eau Claire, Wis. and had been in this vicinity 40 years. He lived at Rt. 1, Box 171, Yelm, and was a member of the Ironworkers' union and of the Eagles in Tacoma. He leaves his wife, Gurina, and a son, Paul W., of the home; sisters, Mrs. Emma Lawrence (should be Lorentz) and Mrs. Alice Scott of Tacoma; Mrs. Lydia Schaffer of Port Angeles; brothers, Hyle of Tacoma and a twin brother, Edwin F. of California, and his mother, Mrs. Hulda Jacobs of Tacoma.
High Tension Electric Accident on Tideflats Kills One, Injures Another
One many was instantly killed and a second fearfully burned at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when a crane swung a cable into a 13,000 volt high tension line at the old Peterman Manufacturing Co. plant on the tideflats.
Earnest A. Locke, 56, of Rte. 1, Yelm, was standing on a truck, holding a hoisting cable when the crane being used by the General Construction Co. in dismantling the plant was being swung around. The cable, on touching the high tension wires, was instantly charged, so that the full voltage struck the workman's body.
Locke, in falling off the truck, tumbled into the arms of another workman, George Hines, 59, of 3632 Fawcett Avenue, police said. Hines was also seriously burned by the high voltage. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where attendants said his condition was serious Wednesday afternoon.
Original newspaper obituary, kept among Emma Cordelia Locke's possessions:
Funeral
Locke-Funeral services for Ernest A. Locke, 55, victim of electric shock at a Tacoma mill Wednesday, will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Tuell chapel. Locke was a native of Eau Claire, Wis. and had been in this vicinity 40 years. He lived at Rt. 1, Box 171, Yelm, and was a member of the Ironworkers' union and of the Eagles in Tacoma. He leaves his wife, Gurina, and a son, Paul W., of the home; sisters, Mrs. Emma Lawrence (should be Lorentz) and Mrs. Alice Scott of Tacoma; Mrs. Lydia Schaffer of Port Angeles; brothers, Hyle of Tacoma and a twin brother, Edwin F. of California, and his mother, Mrs. Hulda Jacobs of Tacoma.
Workman Burned to Death
High Tension Electric Accident on Tideflats Kills One, Injures Another
One many was instantly killed and a second fearfully burned at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when a crane swung a cable into a 13,000 volt high tension line at the old Peterman Manufacturing Co. plant on the tideflats.
Earnest A. Locke, 56, of Rte. 1, Yelm, was standing on a truck, holding a hoisting cable when the crane being used by the General Construction Co. in dismantling the plant was being swung around. The cable, on touching the high tension wires, was instantly charged, so that the full voltage struck the workman's body.
Locke, in falling off the truck, tumbled into the arms of another workman, George Hines, 59, of 3632 Fawcett Avenue, police said. Hines was also seriously burned by the high voltage. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where attendants said his condition was serious Wednesday afternoon.
Original newspaper obituary, kept among Emma Cordelia Locke's possessions:
Funeral
Locke-Funeral services for Ernest A. Locke, 55, victim of electric shock at a Tacoma mill Wednesday, will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Tuell chapel. Locke was a native of Eau Claire, Wis. and had been in this vicinity 40 years. He lived at Rt. 1, Box 171, Yelm, and was a member of the Ironworkers' union and of the Eagles in Tacoma. He leaves his wife, Gurina, and a son, Paul W., of the home; sisters, Mrs. Emma Lawrence (should be Lorentz) and Mrs. Alice Scott of Tacoma; Mrs. Lydia Schaffer of Port Angeles; brothers, Hyle of Tacoma and a twin brother, Edwin F. of California, and his mother, Mrs. Hulda Jacobs of Tacoma.
High Tension Electric Accident on Tideflats Kills One, Injures Another
One many was instantly killed and a second fearfully burned at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when a crane swung a cable into a 13,000 volt high tension line at the old Peterman Manufacturing Co. plant on the tideflats.
Earnest A. Locke, 56, of Rte. 1, Yelm, was standing on a truck, holding a hoisting cable when the crane being used by the General Construction Co. in dismantling the plant was being swung around. The cable, on touching the high tension wires, was instantly charged, so that the full voltage struck the workman's body.
Locke, in falling off the truck, tumbled into the arms of another workman, George Hines, 59, of 3632 Fawcett Avenue, police said. Hines was also seriously burned by the high voltage. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where attendants said his condition was serious Wednesday afternoon.
Original newspaper obituary, kept among Emma Cordelia Locke's possessions:
Funeral
Locke-Funeral services for Ernest A. Locke, 55, victim of electric shock at a Tacoma mill Wednesday, will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Tuell chapel. Locke was a native of Eau Claire, Wis. and had been in this vicinity 40 years. He lived at Rt. 1, Box 171, Yelm, and was a member of the Ironworkers' union and of the Eagles in Tacoma. He leaves his wife, Gurina, and a son, Paul W., of the home; sisters, Mrs. Emma Lawrence (should be Lorentz) and Mrs. Alice Scott of Tacoma; Mrs. Lydia Schaffer of Port Angeles; brothers, Hyle of Tacoma and a twin brother, Edwin F. of California, and his mother, Mrs. Hulda Jacobs of Tacoma.
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