Electrocuted While Repairing Leaky Pipe
Edward R. GABRIEL Killed Instantly by Shock
Screaming with pain as the current from an electric torch passed through his body, Edward R. Gabriel, 32, foreman in the wheel department at the Ford plant, was electrocuted yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock while repairing a leaky water pipe under his home at 777 Richmond Avenue.
Mr. Gabriel’s body lay limp when Mrs. Gabriel, his wife, rushed to him after hearing his agonized cry.
About 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr. Gabriel went under his home at the request of his wife to mend a leaky joint of pipe. He had been under the house only a short time when Mrs. Gabriel hear his cry of pain.
Instantly she rushed to the switchbox and shut off the current. She went to his side and on seeing he had suffered an extremely severe shock she called a Cole-Carlin ambulance.
Mr. Gabriel had been in Memphis about five years since coming from Meridian, Miss., his home. He is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 308 at Meridian. He had been employed in the wheel department at the Ford plant for several years.
He is survived by his widow and four children, Edward, Jr., Frederick, Norris Ray and Dorothy Jean.
The body is being held at Cole-Carlin funeral parlors pending funeral arrangements.
Source: Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Monday Morning, March 21, 1927
Contributed by Steven Gabriel (maesrick [at] att [dot] net)