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Show -iJ: N:l IUM1..;! I - vr " Q . ' - iLl"BICT H SHOCKS i: ' BOY. MB : HE STILL LIVES Arthur Robertson, Aged Sixteen, Touches Higlt ' Tension Wire Carrying 16,000 VoItagejBurnd All Over His Body. r 0 9 WHAT BOY STOOD -"WOULD BULL A WHOLE COMPANY 01 MEN. ' ' Arthur Robertson. year old. was on the roof of the Utah Light . and Power company! west side " power station at S:30o' clock last night. He recelyed a ahock of 16.000 volts of electricity and still Uvea. Two hundred volta would kill a man. " The ahock he received would kill ' eighty men. He waa unconscious from three to five minutea and waa dazed for ilx hours. v . t) . He received bad burns on his head, back, feet and hands. Hla escape from death waa only by one chance In a million. & He Is at the Keogh-Wright hospi- tal and will recover. ' " " S1 ' BY ABTHTJE. BOBLNSON. I am 'Arthur Robertson and am it years of age. I waa struck last night by a 16,000-volt current' of electrteltf and still live to tell the tale. X My father's name la J. Robertson, but he is now out of the city and.I'llve here, at 353 West First South street, with my mother. I was working up until & few days " ago, but ran a nail in my foot and haj to quit until It got well. I waa out with some other boys looking for junk and we decided to go up on the roof of the .power station for scrap wire. Touched a Live Wire Henry Pedterson. ii years old. arid Clarence Wileon, my own age. climbed up the ladder and onto the roof with me. .' - We had been on the roof perhaps ten or fifteen minutea when I atooped to, go "under one of the big wires. I guea I must have raised up and touched tKg back of my head to the wire. That's all I knew about It for quite while. I don't remember falling, and waa dead to. the world for from three to five minutes. Then I partly awakened and rememi ber that I tried to crawl back after my hat, but they wouldn't let me. I helped myself a little as the engineer got me down to the ground. I was not fully aware of all that was going on around me, and regained consciousness gradually. grad-ually. . First Words He Heard. The first thing I really knew was that I heard them talking and it seemed ai if they were a long way off. At first I couldn't make out what they said, but after awhile I could understand therr' I didn't know what struck me until t heard them talking about It. ' Then they put me in a wagon ana took me home. Then I began to wonv der where I was. I began to shlvei and shake and kept that up until It o'clock, when I wnt to sleep. i They dressed my burns last night, but they are going to take me to th Keogh-Wrlght hospital this afternoon; where they can keep better watch on my burns. , I guess I can thank Providence that I'm not dead because they told mw that the current I received was enougli . to kill eighty men and that my chances of escaping death from such a oyremt were only one In a million. TOOK 16,000 VOLTS " THROUGH HIS BODY AND STILL HE LIVES ' T Arthur Robertson, 16 years old, touched a live wire on the roof of the West side power station on Fourth West street, between First and Second SouQ. streets, last night, receiving a shock of 16,000 volts, and lives to relate his re markable escape from instant death. Robertson and two companions went to the West side power station about 8:30 o'clock last night and went up to the roof on a ladder, searching for scrap wire to sell for junk. Touched High-Tension Wire. While walking on the tin roof of the building, Robertson stooped to pass under un-der a high tension wire carrying 16.0CD. volts from the Ogden power plant. As he 'passed under the wire, there was a flash, and the bells in the statio rang like mad while Robertson dropped,, limply to the roof. His companions saw that he had been shocked and ran to his assistance, but were afraid to touch him for fear that they, too, would be injured. Z. Fred Shelton and Hyrum GrOesbeck the night engineers, heard the thud as Robertson's body struck the roof. Groes-beck, Groes-beck, who was inside the building raff, out. and Shelton, who was on the laws in front, ran to the rear and mounting the ladder, went to Robertson's rescue. Picked' Up Unconscious. t V Robertson was unconscious, and wak quickly carried to the ground Where he was stretched out on the lawn. Both Shelton and Groesbeck, who ar-- M i Continued pa. Tag 10.Jj |