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ELECTROCUTION
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Dallas County.Dead is 62-yr old Frank Cooper of DeSoto,... hospitalized in fair condition was 63-yr old J.C.Porter also DeSoto.Both men were working at a stte where a concrete abutment was being installed on one end of a bridge over a culvert.Cooper was standing on muddy ground..Porter was on high ground..both held metal lines connected to a crane.. which toughed a high wire.The shock threw Porter from the line but Cooper was electrocuted.Dallas Commissioner Jim Tyson has announc d that flags at the Dallas Courthouse will be
lowered to half-staff tomorrow in honor of Cooper. hk ku;4It
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One Dallas County Employee was killed and another injured today..in on-the-job accident near Hutchins in SouthEast