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Rat’s Death Puts Town in Gloom.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907

A rat three inches long paralyzed the electric lighting system of Stamford, Conn., and put the town in darkness for twenty-four hours. Climbing a guy wire fifty feet long, the rat reached a conduit carrying 10,000 volts of electricity. It placed its front feet on the charged wire and instantly diverted the current through its body to the guy wire and thence the ground. The rat was petrified in midair by the electricity, and the wire trouble men spent a whole day in locating the point of disturbance.

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