Butte County CA Archives Obituaries.....Wimmer, William A. January 26, 1917
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Chico Daily Enterprise, January 26, 1917
“FIND VICTIM OF LIVE WIRE DEAD ON FENCE

The dead and rigid body of W[illiam] A. Wimmer was taken off the barbed wire 
fence on the Humboldt road at the dumping grounds this afternoon by linemen of 
the Northern California Power Company.  He had been electrocuted by the 2300-
volt wire of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which had burned in two and 
fallen upon the fence. Seventy-five yards from this scene, along the fence, a 
cow was found dead.

A woman who gave the name of Mrs. Compton, passing in an automobile saw Weimer 
[sic] on the fence.  She drove rapidly toward town and met the two linemen M.S. 
Carsey and D. P. Lightfoot, they returned to the scene immediately.  Wimmer was 
lying across the fence, a leg on each side.  He was horribly burned on the 
thighs, abdomen and forehead.

The line evidently fell at the moment Wimmer was on the fence.

Wimmer lived at 917 Ivy street.  He had been gathering scrapes of junk, which 
he had stacked in a heap, preparatory to taking them home.  Wimmer was 43 years 
old and was formerly a minister.  He leaves a wife and five children.

Deputy Coroner Frank Nau took charge of the body, which was removed to the 
Fetters & Williams mortuary chapel.  An inquest will be held by Coroner Johnson 
tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock.” END


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