ELECTRICITY'S VICTIMS IN EUROPE.


[Illustration: Monument to Minine and Pojarsky, Russia.]

Although the greatest number of deaths from electricity have occurred in
this country--more than one hundred--of which twenty-two occurred in
this city, yet other countries have not been without such "accidents,"
as has been erroneously stated by experts in the employ of the companies
interested in the deadly high-voltage currents, and as the subjoined
list, compiled by C.F. Heinrichs, the electrical expert, shows. The list
is by no means exhaustive. Many European newspapers contain articles
advising stringent measures to stop the causes of those accidents and
the use of currents of electricity above six hundred volts.

Following is a list of victims of electricity in Europe:

In February, 1880, Mr. Bruno, the euphonium player at the Holte Theatre
in Ashton, near Birmingham, touched the conductors of a two-light
electric plant and received a shock which rendered him insensible, and
he died within forty minutes.

In October, 1880, the stoker of the yacht Livadia, which was lying in
the Thames, near London, was ordered to adjust one of the Jablochkoff
candles. He accidently touched the terminals of the lamp, and instantly
fell down dead. The difference of potential at the lamp terminals was
only fifty volts, but it was admitted at the time that the wires must