Chippewa Falls - AP - Two CCC
workers enrolled in Camp Rusk
died when they came in contact
with a high tension power line.
Louis Frantal, of New Lisbon, died
in a Chippewa Falls hospital at
7:30 p. m., three hours after Neal
Emerson,* of Barron, succumbed....
--excerpt from Janesville Daily Gazette; October 12, 1937
*Killed one mile east of Bruce; when raising a steel well casing it struck a 6,000-volt power line. Worked at the CCC camp at City Point before being transferred to Bruce.
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; October 12 & 23, 1937
Electrocuted on a farm (Ira Ralston farm) near Bruce; a crew of five sought a suitable place to sink a well for forest fire protection. Emerson (foreman) and Frontal held a metal pipe which came into contact with wires carrying a heavy current of electricity.
Source: Madison Wisconsin State Journal; October 13, 1937
Emerson memorial #24867743.
workers enrolled in Camp Rusk
died when they came in contact
with a high tension power line.
Louis Frantal, of New Lisbon, died
in a Chippewa Falls hospital at
7:30 p. m., three hours after Neal
Emerson,* of Barron, succumbed....
--excerpt from Janesville Daily Gazette; October 12, 1937
*Killed one mile east of Bruce; when raising a steel well casing it struck a 6,000-volt power line. Worked at the CCC camp at City Point before being transferred to Bruce.
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; October 12 & 23, 1937
Electrocuted on a farm (Ira Ralston farm) near Bruce; a crew of five sought a suitable place to sink a well for forest fire protection. Emerson (foreman) and Frontal held a metal pipe which came into contact with wires carrying a heavy current of electricity.
Source: Madison Wisconsin State Journal; October 13, 1937
Emerson memorial #24867743.
Chippewa Falls - AP - Two CCC
workers enrolled in Camp Rusk
died when they came in contact
with a high tension power line.
Louis Frantal, of New Lisbon, died
in a Chippewa Falls hospital at
7:30 p. m., three hours after Neal
Emerson,* of Barron, succumbed....
--excerpt from Janesville Daily Gazette; October 12, 1937
*Killed one mile east of Bruce; when raising a steel well casing it struck a 6,000-volt power line. Worked at the CCC camp at City Point before being transferred to Bruce.
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; October 12 & 23, 1937
Electrocuted on a farm (Ira Ralston farm) near Bruce; a crew of five sought a suitable place to sink a well for forest fire protection. Emerson (foreman) and Frontal held a metal pipe which came into contact with wires carrying a heavy current of electricity.
Source: Madison Wisconsin State Journal; October 13, 1937
Emerson memorial #24867743.
workers enrolled in Camp Rusk
died when they came in contact
with a high tension power line.
Louis Frantal, of New Lisbon, died
in a Chippewa Falls hospital at
7:30 p. m., three hours after Neal
Emerson,* of Barron, succumbed....
--excerpt from Janesville Daily Gazette; October 12, 1937
*Killed one mile east of Bruce; when raising a steel well casing it struck a 6,000-volt power line. Worked at the CCC camp at City Point before being transferred to Bruce.
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; October 12 & 23, 1937
Electrocuted on a farm (Ira Ralston farm) near Bruce; a crew of five sought a suitable place to sink a well for forest fire protection. Emerson (foreman) and Frontal held a metal pipe which came into contact with wires carrying a heavy current of electricity.
Source: Madison Wisconsin State Journal; October 13, 1937
Emerson memorial #24867743.
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