| Show LINEMANS GREAT PERIL Henry McDermott Receives an Electric Shock UNCONSCIOUS ON CROSSARM While Stringing a Wire ixn Employee of the Telephone Company Strikes His Line Against a live Wire and a Current of Electricity Courses Through Him Ho is Rendered Senseless but FellowWorkmen Rescue Him Ho is Hot Permanently Permanent-ly Injured That lines pretty hot This was Line tho exclamation that Telephone man C D Collett who was on the ground heard his fellow lineman Henry MoDcrmott make from the lower arms of a large pole in the center cen-ter of First South street between Second and Third East streets at about 715 a in yesterday aa the gang of men were stringing two telephone tele-phone wires Intended for a new residence res-idence Tho wires were being run over the pole arms from two iron reels in a construction wagon in charge of J F nirschvogel The exclamation was attended by a flash and a sort of report that indicated indi-cated there might bo danger thereIn there-In a few seconds Mr Collett saw another an-other flash and there wore immediately imme-diately other crackling reports and it was seen at once that McDermott had received a shock The telephone wires had come twice In contact with electric elec-tric light wires which arc strung on the lower crossarms carrying a heavy voltage and McDormott received the i tiN ti-N w NNN NN N z c1 = mm NN < Iz ± N L 21 e J I Henry McDermotts Perilous Position benefit of It The first contact was but slight while the second carried into the body of time Imperiled man as much of the current from the LOOO volt electric light wire as the smaller telephone wire would hold The current cur-rent was strong enough to raise severe se-vere blisters on McDermotts hands and burn a small hole In his right arm above time wrist where the electric elec-tric fluid escaped from his body Had the wire been heavy enough the entire voltage of the live wire would have passed Into McDermotts body and killed him instantly As It was ho was stunned into Insensibility In-sensibility and it Is a marvel that he did not instantly full fnentyflvo foot to the street But the force of the shock appeared to have crooked and stiffened his right elbow so that as he collapsed his crooked arm caught ovor the arm next to the lower one and this alone saved him from perhaps per-haps a fatal fall Lineman Collett wag up that pole instantly and A J Holmes a third llnoman was not far behind him Mr Collett held onto the unconscious man until Sir Holmes got up there and the two braced him on the arms and held him Hrmly until a rope strong enough could be brought from tIme telephone shops and McDer molt lowered to the street It was about ten minutes from the time of the accident before the sufferer could bo lowered from his dangerous perch but he had recovered his senses just before that Mr McDermott expressed an opinion derogatory to electricity In general and live wires In particular and was assisted to his room 2iA West Third South street Dr Beatty attended him both on tho street and afterward The patient was soon up and around apparently none the worse for the wear and will probably be able to work again today He Is 33 yeara old and has been In this city but a month having come from Peoria Ill The spectacle of limo man after sustaining sus-taining the shock the successful efforts ef-forts to save him from falling and the lowering to the street was highly exciting and drew a large crowd to the spot |
