Mendenhall Man Is Electrocuted
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Mendenhall, April 30-Travis Bass, young Mendenhall repairman, was killed late yesterday afternoon when he picked up a 2300-volt broken power line.
Bass was pronounced dead at 6:20 by Dr. C. G. Rotenberry, Mendenhall physician.
The Highway Patrol sped a pulmotor from the Jackson Fire Department to the scene to aid in resuscitation attempts. Friends had applied artificial respiration to the 21-year-old man's body since four o clock in an ineffectual attempt to revive him.
Simpson County Sheriff Sam Johnson said a lightning bolt cut a power line near the center of town. Bass was a member of the Mendenhall repair crew, repairing the damage.
The sheriff said witnesses to the accident told him Bass saw the wire laying across the sidewalk, shooting sparks. He was knocked unconscious when he attempted to remove the wire, he said they told him.
The accident happened near the Simpson County News office and just across the street from the Mendenhall Equipment Company.
The whole community was plunged into darkness by the break.
An odd note crept into the tragedy when H. L. Thompson, wife of the town's electrician and a friend of the Bass' disclosed that a watch Bass was wearing had been worn by four other men in his family. They also met accidental deaths.
This is the second electrocution at Mendenhall this year. On February 8, a telephone lineman, Joe Lovings, was hit by lightning while working on a line during an electrical storm.
Mendenhall is 30 miles south of Jackson.
Bass was married and an expectant father. He had worked for the town of Mendenhall since January.
His body was taken to the Mendenhall Funeral Home.
--- Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), Sun, 1 May 1949, P. 1.
Thanks to Contributor: WingandaPrayer (47605942)
Artificial Respiration,
Pulmotor Ineffective
Mendenhall, April 30-Travis Bass, young Mendenhall repairman, was killed late yesterday afternoon when he picked up a 2300-volt broken power line.
Bass was pronounced dead at 6:20 by Dr. C. G. Rotenberry, Mendenhall physician.
The Highway Patrol sped a pulmotor from the Jackson Fire Department to the scene to aid in resuscitation attempts. Friends had applied artificial respiration to the 21-year-old man's body since four o clock in an ineffectual attempt to revive him.
Simpson County Sheriff Sam Johnson said a lightning bolt cut a power line near the center of town. Bass was a member of the Mendenhall repair crew, repairing the damage.
The sheriff said witnesses to the accident told him Bass saw the wire laying across the sidewalk, shooting sparks. He was knocked unconscious when he attempted to remove the wire, he said they told him.
The accident happened near the Simpson County News office and just across the street from the Mendenhall Equipment Company.
The whole community was plunged into darkness by the break.
An odd note crept into the tragedy when H. L. Thompson, wife of the town's electrician and a friend of the Bass' disclosed that a watch Bass was wearing had been worn by four other men in his family. They also met accidental deaths.
This is the second electrocution at Mendenhall this year. On February 8, a telephone lineman, Joe Lovings, was hit by lightning while working on a line during an electrical storm.
Mendenhall is 30 miles south of Jackson.
Bass was married and an expectant father. He had worked for the town of Mendenhall since January.
His body was taken to the Mendenhall Funeral Home.
--- Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), Sun, 1 May 1949, P. 1.
Thanks to Contributor: WingandaPrayer (47605942)
Mendenhall Man Is Electrocuted
Artificial Respiration,
Pulmotor Ineffective
Mendenhall, April 30-Travis Bass, young Mendenhall repairman, was killed late yesterday afternoon when he picked up a 2300-volt broken power line.
Bass was pronounced dead at 6:20 by Dr. C. G. Rotenberry, Mendenhall physician.
The Highway Patrol sped a pulmotor from the Jackson Fire Department to the scene to aid in resuscitation attempts. Friends had applied artificial respiration to the 21-year-old man's body since four o clock in an ineffectual attempt to revive him.
Simpson County Sheriff Sam Johnson said a lightning bolt cut a power line near the center of town. Bass was a member of the Mendenhall repair crew, repairing the damage.
The sheriff said witnesses to the accident told him Bass saw the wire laying across the sidewalk, shooting sparks. He was knocked unconscious when he attempted to remove the wire, he said they told him.
The accident happened near the Simpson County News office and just across the street from the Mendenhall Equipment Company.
The whole community was plunged into darkness by the break.
An odd note crept into the tragedy when H. L. Thompson, wife of the town's electrician and a friend of the Bass' disclosed that a watch Bass was wearing had been worn by four other men in his family. They also met accidental deaths.
This is the second electrocution at Mendenhall this year. On February 8, a telephone lineman, Joe Lovings, was hit by lightning while working on a line during an electrical storm.
Mendenhall is 30 miles south of Jackson.
Bass was married and an expectant father. He had worked for the town of Mendenhall since January.
His body was taken to the Mendenhall Funeral Home.
--- Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), Sun, 1 May 1949, P. 1.
Thanks to Contributor: WingandaPrayer (47605942)
Artificial Respiration,
Pulmotor Ineffective
Mendenhall, April 30-Travis Bass, young Mendenhall repairman, was killed late yesterday afternoon when he picked up a 2300-volt broken power line.
Bass was pronounced dead at 6:20 by Dr. C. G. Rotenberry, Mendenhall physician.
The Highway Patrol sped a pulmotor from the Jackson Fire Department to the scene to aid in resuscitation attempts. Friends had applied artificial respiration to the 21-year-old man's body since four o clock in an ineffectual attempt to revive him.
Simpson County Sheriff Sam Johnson said a lightning bolt cut a power line near the center of town. Bass was a member of the Mendenhall repair crew, repairing the damage.
The sheriff said witnesses to the accident told him Bass saw the wire laying across the sidewalk, shooting sparks. He was knocked unconscious when he attempted to remove the wire, he said they told him.
The accident happened near the Simpson County News office and just across the street from the Mendenhall Equipment Company.
The whole community was plunged into darkness by the break.
An odd note crept into the tragedy when H. L. Thompson, wife of the town's electrician and a friend of the Bass' disclosed that a watch Bass was wearing had been worn by four other men in his family. They also met accidental deaths.
This is the second electrocution at Mendenhall this year. On February 8, a telephone lineman, Joe Lovings, was hit by lightning while working on a line during an electrical storm.
Mendenhall is 30 miles south of Jackson.
Bass was married and an expectant father. He had worked for the town of Mendenhall since January.
His body was taken to the Mendenhall Funeral Home.
--- Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), Sun, 1 May 1949, P. 1.
Thanks to Contributor: WingandaPrayer (47605942)
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