Left For Children To Play With

LEFT FOR CHILDREN TO PLAY WITH

A Heavily Charged Coil of Electric Wire on a Street Corner Over Night.

Electricity is a dangerous agent in the hands of the ignorant or thoughtless. Tuesday evening the workmen on the D., Y. & A. A. electric railway who are putting in a new food wire for the road on S. Main and Packard sts. shut off work at 6 o'clock and left a large coil of wire on Packard st., corner of Fourth, a few feet from the ground and within reach of children. It was soon found that it was charged with electricity evidently from induction and an electrical expert made a measurement of the amount of electricity and found that it carried 550 volts. In other words it was a live wire and as dangerous as is the trolley wire itself. lf a child had grasped it, it might have been killed. Mayor Luick was summoned and hunted up the new marshal who stationed a watch until the company was forced to send a man to guard the wire. But for the fact that the wire was seen by parties who knew something about electricity, the papers might have been called upon this afternoon to chronicle a terrible death by electricity.