Harrison County MsArchives Obituaries.....Caillavet, John E. "Man" May 14, 1907
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Biloxi Daily Herald on 14 May 1907
"'MAN' CAILLAVET ELECTROCUTED"

"Met Death By Coming in Contact With Live Wire While Discharging His Duty"

"Mr. Caillavet Was Lineman For the Coast Traction Company"

"John E. Caillavet, son of Capt. and Mrs. John L. Caillavet of this city, a 
young man who has lived all his life in Biloxi, met instant death by 
electrocution while at work today on the wires of the Gulfport & Mississippi 
Coast Traction Company in Gulfport. Mr. Caillavet was employed by the Traction 
Company and it was a little before 12 o'clock while he was at work at the top of 
one of the company's poles that the high tension wire came in contact with his 
body and he was instantly killed. The wire seemed to strike him on the neck and 
his neck and shoulder were terribly burned by the fiery and invisible fluid. 
Those who saw the accident say that death was instantaneous. The body was taken 
to Walston's undertaking establishment in Gulfport and will be brought to 
Biloxi. Mr. Caillavet was about twenty-two years old, unmarried and leaves a 
father and mother and several sisters to mourn his death. To his friends he was 
familiar known as 'Man'."

Additional Comments:
John E. Caillavet was born in Biloxi on March 16, 1882.  He was the son of John 
Latour Caillavet (1852-1923)and Georgiana Dees (1856-1929).

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