Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Heck, Floyd D. August 7, 1910
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Virginian Pilot August 8, 1910

                        ELECTRIC SHOCK KILLED LINEMAN

  Floyd D. Heck Lingered Since July 18 After Receiving Burns From 2, 300 Volts

Floyd D. Heck, a Traction lineman, who was shocked on the 18th of last month 
while at work at the top of an electric light pole, at the corner of Liberty and 
Thirteenth Street, died at the Lawford hospital yesterday morning at 11:45 
o'clock after making a long and brave fight for life.
His neck was burned to the spinal column and the bone scorched by the terrific 
current that the wire was charged with at the time. There were 2,300 volts in 
the wire.
He was also burned on the left hip almost to the bone and along the leg to the 
knee and received several other minor burns. After he received the first shock 
which rendered him unconscious he fell over on the wires and that accounts for 
his burns being so numerous.
His athletic build and strength and unusual vitality kept him alive.
He had been married to a Norfolk girl only six months when the accident 
occurred.  He was twenty-six years old. The remains were turned over to Funeral 
Director Smith for burial which will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The 
service will be conducted from the funeral apartments of Mr. Smith in Bank 
Street.
The deceased had been living in Norfolk fourteen years and at the time of the 
accident lived in East Brambleton Avenue.
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The funeral of Floyd D. Heck was held from the apartments of Funeral Director 
H.C. Smith, 179 Bank Street, at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon.  The service was 
conducted by Rev. Chas. H. Galloway, of Trinity M.E. Church. There was a 
handsome display of floral tributes.  The interment was in Elmwood Cemetery.
Following were the pallbearers: J.M. Winston, R.L. Rowe, J. Powers, C.V. Sears, 
J.W. Griffin, D.G. Crockett.

Virginian Pilot August 10, 1910


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