Deadliest hmo rau me nyuam. Louis Police

Deadliest xwm tshwm sim rau me nyuam. Louis Police yav dhau los tsis yog ib tug shootout, natural disaster, or act of terrorism. Deadliest xwm tshwm sim rau me nyuam. Louis Police keeb kwm tshwmsim rau hnub ib hmo, Cuaj hlis 3, 1900. Electricity was the assailant as a power line with 3300 volts txog hluav taws xob poob mus rau lub laj kab xov tooj, thaum nws muaj yim txoj kev thiab Carr Avenue. The telephone lines connected all the policemen’s call boxes in the Downtown area.

Seventy police officers patrolling the Downtown District were potential victims as they made their way to the call boxes for their 7:00 p.m. kos-ins. Rau thaum xaus rau hmo ntuj, two police officers lay dead, and electricity seriously burned thirteen other officers. The current also injured officers by throwing the officers from the call boxes or the headquarters call center.

Ua ntej qhov kev siv cov xov tooj cua two-way, police officer called in on the call box every hour, so the station knew they were okay. The call box was also the primary way to call for a transport after arresting someone. As the police officers began to make their way to the call boxes, the electric current knocked an operator against the wall in the headquarters call center.

St. Louis Police command personnel sent out messengers to warn the officers about the potential threat, but too many officers did not get the warning in time. Ib lineman, uas teb cov tub ceev xwm lub tsev hauv paus, yog tseem ceeb heev, when he tried to address the problem.

The thirteen injured officers suffered burns to their hands, or the current knocked them unconscious. The current threw a handful of officers from the call box leading to joint injuries. Cov kev tshaj hlawv raug mob lawm tes inserting hauv lub lag luam mus rau ntawm lub box hu los cranking lub box hu kov.

Patrol Officer John F. Killoren inserted his key into the call box at Fifteenth Street and Franklin Avenue and the electric current through Killoren into the street. Killoren staggered mus nws lub taw thiab sim qhib rau ntawm lub box hu dua ua ntej bystanders yuav cheem nws. The current knocked Killoren back into the street again with serious burns to his hands.

Ntxiv rau tus neeg khiav dej num uas raug mob ntawv, who citizens transported to the hospital, two officers lost their lives that night. Cov chaw raug tua cov neeg khiav dej num, Nicholas F. Beckmann, thiab cov neeg khiav dej num veteran, John P. Looney.

Beckmann was a twenty-six-year-old police officer and veteran of the Spanish-American War. Beckman fought thaum tsov rog ntawm San Mai toj, uas Theodore Roosevelt ntxhib Riders naas ej ua.

Beckman siv rau ntawm lub box hu rau txoj kev Eighteenth thaum Washington Carr Avenue. Raws li Beckmann qhib rau ntawm lub box hu, nws screamed thiab poob rov qab. Bystanders coj nws mus hauv lub tsev kho mob Protestant nyob tsis deb, qhov twg nws yeej tsis regained nco qab. Lawv yuav tsum tau zom cov xov xwm rau nws niam widowed, leej twg nyob rau Beckmann.

James Looney yog 41 xyoo thiab txiv txiv, leej twg lawm rau hlab txij li 1893. The electrical current shocked Looney as he tried to open the call box at Twelfth Street and Morgan Avenue. Citizens carried Looney to the dispensary, but he never regained consciousness. Looney died 15 minutes after the first shock.

City Lighting officials determined the source of the shock to be the power line from the Seckner Contracting Company. Raws li lub zos nom, the Seckner Company’s was supposed to bury their wires, but the company received a waiver from the Board of Public Improvements. The officials cut down the responsible lines and told Seckner to bury the lines after repairing them.

Nyob rau hauv 2006, cov me nyuam. Louis ceev xwm pom tau hais tias qhov Michael P. Christian, yog ib lub neej tsug kaum peb thoob li hmo ntawd yog leej twg, died from the shock 15 lub hlis tom ntej, Hlis ntuj nqeg 13, 1901. It was one of the rare occasions that three St. Louis neeg khiav dej num yuav tsis tau lawv lub neej nyob rau hauv tib yam xwm tshwm sim. The department shootouts get more coverage but the deadliest night in St. Louis Police keeb kwm yog cuaj hlis 3, 1900, when electricity attacked an unsuspecting force doing their duty.

Qhov chaw: St. Louis Dispatch tom qab, Cuaj hlis 4, 1900, p. 1

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