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ELECTROCUTION
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WARD: LIVE
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 belowered to half-staff tomorrow in honor of Cooper.
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One Dallas County Employee was killed and another injured
today..in on-the-job accident near Hutchins in SouthEast
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Electrocution], script, December 13, 1973, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1910915/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.