Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 32
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, October 9, 1902
KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN TELEPHONE
Dallas,
Tex., Oct. 2.--Ottis Parker was instantly killed at Paris, Texas, tonight while
using a telephone. He had the trumpet to his ear when he suddenly dropped
dead from an electric shock. The telephone wires had come in contact with
an alternating current by crossing other wires. Parker was chief
bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery company.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas