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Show The Dradlr Wire. New York, Sept 10. Oneof the inostrinsultr accidents of the long IM resulting froci contact with thu deadly overhanging electric wires, occurred on Saturday last to Master Charles It. Young, sixteen years old, a son of G. V. Young, vice-saperintendent vice-saperintendent of the Maritime Exchange, Ex-change, lie camcin contact witli a dangling electric telegraph wire on Petri. Street, near .Maiden l.ane. The wire caught Master Young first upon the skull an! ear, and then, supported by the lobe of tlie latter organ, pressed diagonally across the breast and un Jer the left car. The ear and skin covering the skull wen-burned wen-burned as if a red hot iron had been put to them. The sack coat worn by the boy had a seam burned into it clear across tlie breast and tlie arm Is badly scorrhed aud burned. Tho shock knocked Ma'ter Young down upon his knees and he rolicu over Into the gutter and LAY IN THE HUD for a few minutes, when an Italian fruit peddler on the opposto side of Uie street saw him get up and walk away. Not knowing at the time what had happened to him the injured in-jured lad fountl lib way home. It was on his arrival at his parent's home that the shock of thu electric wires began to manifest Itself Iu the strange actions and speexh of the boy. He came In saying: "How's buslncvi? I've been struck by elet-triclty. elet-triclty. What time of day bit, and what day of tho month;" Ho told lib sister in one breath that he had been rtrur-k senseless and In another flatly denied It- They could not elicit anything from him, and when he made an assertion it was contradicted by him directly afterwards. Dr. Charles IS. Tucker, one of the best known physicians of Brooklyn, was summoned and gave the boy a mild opiate, which had the effect of putting 'him to sleep. He awoke Sunday morning aud his mind was still wandering, but yesterday yes-terday he recovered lib senses and though not as well as usual was ra tional. Dr. Tucker says It was one of the strangest coses he bad ever heard of. The ouly theory he could advance was that the wire gave the boy's brain a shock at the poiut where it touched the skull. |