Ambrose A. Mettler, 52, grocer and milk dealer, died saving Horace S. Andrus, 76, insurance solicitor, from electric shock, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1912. Andrus had stopped to speak to Mettler, who was in a wagon beside a pole bearing high?power wires. One of the wires had broken and was hanging down alongside the pole. Andrus came in contact with the wire and was shocked. He caught hold of the wire and was instantly rendered unconscious. Mettler immediately sprang from the wagon and grabbed the wire. He was whirled around and thrown to the ground, the wire being jerked out of Andrus’s grasp. Mettler lay with the wire in his hand and died before he could be freed. Andrus recovered. 9105-829
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