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- Elmira NY Morning Telegram - 4/21/1918
Corning, April 20.-Charles E. Benedict,
aged fifty-eight, of No. 265 West
Pulteney street, while on his first
day's work at. painting a steel tower
supporting the high power electric
transmission wire which brings electric
power from Elmira to Corning,
touched the wire about 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and was instantly
killed. His body fell to the ground.
Burns on his right wrist, between his
gloved hand and the wristband of his
garment, told the story, but not as to
whether he lost his foothold or balance-
and touched the wire, as he had
been cautioned not to do before he ascended
the-tower. It was his first day
on this job. Mr. Benedict was working
for Walter Stevens, who has the
contract for painting these steel.'towers
for the Corning Light and Power
corporation.' Previous to yesterday he
had been working for Contractor Stevens
getting out lumber from the
woods near Deckertown, town of
Corning. The tower from which Mr.
Benedict fell is on the north side of
the Chemung river, east of the New
York Central railroad bridge., Charles
E. Benedict had lived in Canton and
Corning the past fifteen years. He
came to Corning from Elmira and had
previously lived in Binghamton. He
would have been 59 years old one week
from today. He was twice married,
first to Eunice Wilson, who died about
ten years ago. and then to Mrs.
Anna Schuster Reynolds, who survive*
him, as do three sons Herbert, of Big
Flats; Lawrence, of West Fifth street.
Corning, and Orrin J., of No. 252 West
Second street, Corning, and two
daughters, Mrs. Thomas Sullivan of
Elmira, and Mrs. Walter Moore, of
Hornell. a sister, Mrs. Henry Balcom,
of Bay View, Mich., and two brothers,
Wells and Lewis Benedict, of Bing-
hamton, also survive. His step-daugh-
ter, Mrs. William J. George, lives in
the same house with her mother, the
decedent's wife. Mr. Benedict was a
carpenter by trade, but he also did
painting, and in Binghamton was a
railroad man.. He had worked for the
Corning Glass works and the Corning
Brick, Terra Cotta and Tile company
at the Ingersoll-rand plant in Paint-
ed Post. Coroner H. B. Smith granted
a certificate of accidental death, deem-
ing no inqust necessary. The body
has been taken to the home of his son,
O. J. Benedict, No. 252 West Second
street, where the funeral will be held
at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. the
Rev. Mr. Jenkins, of the Caton M. E.
church, will officiate. Burial will be
in Barnard cemetery, town of Corning.
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