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Harrod Boy Electrocuted
While Aiding His Father Repair Electric Line in Lima.
	The Lima Republican Gazette gives the following account of the 
terrible accident:
	Scott Wooly, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Wooly of Harrod, 
was electrocuted last week in front of the election board building, 
Walnut and Second streets in that place.
	The fatal accident happened when the young lad was assisting 
his father repairing electric light wires near the residence of Postmaster 
Kirby White.  Clinging to a telegraph pole, at a height of about twenty-four 
feet, the youth became entangled in a net of cross wires, coming in contact 
with a live circuit.  His body was hurled to the ground below and it is 
thought that death was instaneous.  A 3700 voltage passed through his body.
	Dr. Johnson and a number of citizens who had a few minutes later 
gathered at the scene worked vigorously with the form to revive life but 
to no avail.  The father still on the pole had watched his son helplessly 
fall to his death and is reported to be in a frantic condition.
	The body was immediately removed tot he house of his parents.
	The youth was a member of one of the most prominent families in 
Harod.  He was a freshman in the high school at that place.  Besides the 
parents, a sister, Edna, and a brother survive.

Thursday, November 13, 1919