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Niagara Gazette - 8/7/1916

Coroner Harry A. Ernes will tonight
hold an Inquest into the death of Geo
Bond, 21 years old. of Fifteenth street
who was electrocuted when he touched
a power-transmission pole in the rear
of the Carborundum plant Saturday
morning.
The coroner has made a preliminary
investigation of the fatality. It appears
that Bond and James Croy, of Iroquois
street, were engaged in painting transmission
polea for the Niagara Falls
Power company. While Bond was on
ground painting the lower part of
t h e pole from which he received the
fatal shock. Croy was working on top
of the pole, about thirty feet above the
ground. At a nearby pole two other
painters were similarly engaged. The
electric load had been shut off at the
power station to make the painting
operations perfectly safe. When the
painting of tho pole near that on which
Bond and Croy wore working was finished
the line foreman, it is understood
tlelphoned to the power station to turn
on the power, evidently believed Bond
and Croy had finished too.
When the 22,000 volts came coursing
over the cables the current apparently
shortcircuited partially into ono of the
cross-arms and down the pole. When
Bond touched his hand to the pole in
applying his brush ho received a heavy
voltage which knocked him to the
ground, killing him instantly. Croy saw
his partner stricken but realized the
situation at once and remained on the
unaffected crossarm until after the
power had again been shut off. Then
he descended safely to the ground.
The body of Bond is at the Cornell &
Daggett undertaking rooms. The dead
man is a son of William Bond, of the
Saunders settelment road. He was unmarried.
Besides his father four brothers
and three sisters survive.