TRANSCRIBED OBIT:
TOM DAVIS.. While engaged in his work on a light pole at Eastern Avenue and Fourth street Friday morning, Tom Davis, a lineman for trio Oklahoma Gas and Electric company, was instantly killed when he came in contact with a live wire. Two thousand three hundred volts of electricity passed through the lineman's body. Mr. Davis lived at 8 South Celegern avenue. No funeral arrangements have been made as yet, as the law decrees that an electrocuted body must be held sixteen hours before embalmIng, In order to be sure the person is dead.
SOURCE: Oklahoman Archives; Oklahoma City, OK: Feb 17, 1912, pg 5
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TOM DAVIS.. While engaged in his work on a light pole at Eastern Avenue and Fourth street Friday morning, Tom Davis, a lineman for trio Oklahoma Gas and Electric company, was instantly killed when he came in contact with a live wire. Two thousand three hundred volts of electricity passed through the lineman's body. Mr. Davis lived at 8 South Celegern avenue. No funeral arrangements have been made as yet, as the law decrees that an electrocuted body must be held sixteen hours before embalmIng, In order to be sure the person is dead.
SOURCE: Oklahoman Archives; Oklahoma City, OK: Feb 17, 1912, pg 5
::: Contributor: genieangel (47288257) • [email protected]
TRANSCRIBED OBIT:
TOM DAVIS.. While engaged in his work on a light pole at Eastern Avenue and Fourth street Friday morning, Tom Davis, a lineman for trio Oklahoma Gas and Electric company, was instantly killed when he came in contact with a live wire. Two thousand three hundred volts of electricity passed through the lineman's body. Mr. Davis lived at 8 South Celegern avenue. No funeral arrangements have been made as yet, as the law decrees that an electrocuted body must be held sixteen hours before embalmIng, In order to be sure the person is dead.
SOURCE: Oklahoman Archives; Oklahoma City, OK: Feb 17, 1912, pg 5
::: Contributor: genieangel (47288257) • [email protected]
TOM DAVIS.. While engaged in his work on a light pole at Eastern Avenue and Fourth street Friday morning, Tom Davis, a lineman for trio Oklahoma Gas and Electric company, was instantly killed when he came in contact with a live wire. Two thousand three hundred volts of electricity passed through the lineman's body. Mr. Davis lived at 8 South Celegern avenue. No funeral arrangements have been made as yet, as the law decrees that an electrocuted body must be held sixteen hours before embalmIng, In order to be sure the person is dead.
SOURCE: Oklahoman Archives; Oklahoma City, OK: Feb 17, 1912, pg 5
::: Contributor: genieangel (47288257) • [email protected]
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