Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-17 | Page 1 | Gets 6600 Volts and Continues to Live

GETS liliill) VOLTS AM) C0JIT1NUES TO LIVE Employee at Power Plant Receives Re-ceives Full Charge of High Tension Wire. Special to The Tribune. KIMBERL.Y, Jan. 16. Perry Neal is extremely fortunate this morning to be alive. He Is In the employ of the Gold Mountain Consolidated Mining company as a dynamo lender at the lower power plant on Fish creek. He was arranging arrang-ing some UgbtR from tho top of the building build-ing on which there is no Moor, but boards are laid along to walk on. lie in some way camo In contact with tlio high tension line and received the full loud of 6G00 volts. The only thing- which saved his life 1b tho fact of his standing on dry boards, and the force of the shock throw him away from the lino. Dr. W. iil. Griffith was at once notified, and, with others. '"hurried to tho scene of tho accident, which Is fully fourteen miles from here, as fast a horses could convoy them. Neal was breathing very faintly, but after several hours of hard work it is thought his life will be saved. He has several very severe burns about his head, shoulders and along his back. Ho will bo brought to the hospital here today, whore medical aid will ho at hand If any later complications should arise. Neal Is twenty-eight years of age, Is single, and has boen working at the low-cr low-cr plant at Fish creek only aboul two months.