Paulding, Ohio, USA
1918 - Electrical Accident

PAULDING, Ohio, May 22. - Earl Alspach, lineman for the Paulding Home Telephone company, met with an accident a few days ago that came near being fatal. Alspach was working on the lines with his bare hands when he grabbed hold of a guy line that had come in contact with a transmission line of the electric light system. With the other hand he grabbed a grounded wire, receiving a terrific shock. He held on for several minutes and called for help, but no one heard him. Becoming exhausted his hold on he[sic] wire relaxed and he fell, striking one of the iron spikes used, as a step on the pole. A deep gash [?] out in his left side.

The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana
May 22, 1918

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