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Show FORDING TELLS HOW IT FEELS TO GET 2500 VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY w-wOW doen it- feel to be clcctro-H clcctro-H cwtC(,r" JjJ This question wnn addressed to "William A. Fording, tho youiitf lineman who receivedj 2500 volts of electricity In hlH system Wednesday and fell thirty feet from a telegraph pole. "It does not feci." was Mr. Fording's comprehensive reply. Ho wa.'i discharged from the Holy Cross hospital yesterday morniiiK andi went to hln home at 204 East Seventh South, apparently nono the worse for his adventure except for two horrible bums In the palms of his hands. The lino where the charged wires crossed tho pkin are. marked with livid crensoa sinking doep Into tho ficsh. Tho burna nro Intensely painful. He Did Not Suffer. "I do not even know what I was doing do-ing when I got tho nhock," said the Hne-maii Hne-maii In explanation of his former remark. re-mark. "All I remember is that wo were going to test out ai telephone line nnd I woke up about S o'clock yesterday yester-day morning In the honpltnl. The painful pain-ful part of It came after waking up. I sufTer mora now tham I did when I first regained my senses, "If the shock had killed me I would lvevor have felt th' leant sensation of any klndt For fourteen! hours I was dead to the world. Then I roused up a little and had a vague Impression that my wife and mother wero with me. I went off again and firat regained consciousness con-sciousness yesterday morning. I was in bed nnd there was a. sister beside mo. " 'What am I doing here?' T asked her. 'Havf I hadi a fall'?' Then I looked at my hands and said, 'Yen, I mu?t have got .some of the hot ftuff." I tried to remember where I had been. The laft thing I could recall v;ls that we had been) taking out a. drop line on Seventh Knst. After thinking a while it occurred to me that we had) gone to Second East and started to test out a number, r could sc-e mypelf standing on the ground and holding a wire, but I could not remember re-member climbing tho ole or taking hold) of the live wire. Told Him He Wilted. "They tell me that I wilted as I took hold of the live one One of the men started to climb the pole to my rescue arul was up about twelve fiiet when' the circuit waa brokon and I fell backward. back-ward. In golnK down I hit the shoulder of the man on tho pole. Thl broke my fall and may have irxvad my life. "I can feel tho electricity yet and It .ocema sometimes as though my hands were giving off enough of the Julco to run a. power plant. My arm was bruised a little by tho fall, but I do not Hulter any from that. Theso burns are all that bother me. It will probably be July before be-fore I can' go to work again. "This Is one of the worst townn In the countiy so far an danger from high tension wlrea Is concerned. There lo absolutely no way In winch you can tell what wrt of current a wire Is earning." ear-ning." Mr. Fording has been allocked bofore, but hao never been put out of business aa effectually as on last Wednesday. |
