SIMPSON, James J.
Source: Kingman Star Friday, April 30, 1948
Crawfordsville, Ind, March 25 - James Simpson, 19 years old, Cayuga, a construction company employee, was burned critically yesterday when he fell from a pole into a 7,280-volt electric power line near Hillsboro west of here. A member of a crew working out of Attica, Simpson was on the pole with another lineman when he fell into the power line. Fellow workmen revived him through use of artificial respiration. He was taken to a Danville, Ill hospital where attendants said he had suffered second degree burns of the left should and left knee.
Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, April 19, for James J. Simpson, 19, Cayuga electrician who died Friday afternoon in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Danville, at the Cayuga Christian Church. Burial was in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Covington.
The Cayuga youth was severely burned on a 7,200 volt power line, two miles south of Hillsboro on the afternoon of March 24. He had been working near the top of a pole when his foot slipped and threw him into the “hot” wire. He was working with the L. E. Myers crew out of Attica for the public Service Company of Indiana. His death followed the amputation of an arm. He had been in a serious condition since admittance to the hospital in March. Mr. Simpson was a graduate of the Cayuga High School in 1946 and had spent all of his life in that vicinity. He was the son of Mrs. Jean Simpson. His father, J. G. Simpson, preceded him in death and formerly operated a shoe store in Cayuga. Surviving the youth beside his mother, are two sisters, Melissa and Julie Ann, both at home. – thanks to S&E
Source: Indianapolis Star Fri 26 March 1948 p 14
Crawfordsville, Ind, March 25 - James Simpson, 19 years old, Cayuga, a construction company employee, was burned critically yesterday when he fell from a pole into a 7,280-volt electric power line near Hillsboro west of here. A member of a crew working out of Attica, Simpson was on the pole with another lineman when he fell into the power line. Fellow workmen revived him through use of artificial respiration. He was taken to a Danville, Ill hospital where attendants said he had suffered second degree burns of the left should and left knee.