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Show - " j - n a;- t : i. .1 wl.ose tralni-j ? i ' " ! a ro'j '-' cf Ftu 3y alonar t:.e 1...3 cf 11 u t.-J ani the resuscitation of those who have received heavy electric shocks, began the work cf reviving the boy. Manager Kobert S. Campbell and , r.lectrical Engineer Robert F. llayward cf the power company were notified of the accident and immediately repaired to the rower station, taking; with them a physician. . "When they arrived the boy had regained re-gained consciousness, and was removed to his home at ZZ2 West First South, a short distance from the power station, where his injuries were dressed and he was made as comfortable as possible. Eadly Burned All Over Eody. Young Robertson's injuries consist of bad burns all over his body. The back of his head where the charge struck him was fearfully burned, all the hair having been scorched off and the scalp searc 3 as though struck by a re.Jhot Iron. The burr.s ext-ni clown his nerk, fllvAir.'? the vertebrae to the lumbar rf! :, where the scars extend across his lack to either Fide. Ills hips and th!hs are scorched and the bottoms of both feet, which were in contact with the tin roof, are a mass of blisters and burns. His hands are also burned. A woolen shirt which he wore next to his body is Bcorched full of holes and looks as though it had been pierced through and through many times with a redhot poker. llarvel That lie Lived. Engineer llayward said to The Tele gram this morning that he could not account for the fact that Robertson was not instantly burned to death. He said that as Robertson stooped under the wire he must have raised and come close to It, and the powerful current cur-rent "arced" to his head and passed down his body, going into the tin roof. "He did not grip the wire with his hands," said Engineer Hayward, "or he would have been instantly killed and his body burned to a crisp. Knocked Out of Range. "The shock must have knocked him out of range of the current, thus breaking break-ing the circuit. The 16.C0O volts passed a short distance through the air In making ma-king the arc to his head and lost a little, lit-tle, but not much of Its terrific force. "It is only one chance in a million that a person could receive such a shock and not be killed. "The most experienced electricians stand in mortal fear of those high tension ten-sion wires, which frequently defy the most careful Insulation. "How this boy lived after receiving a shock sufficient under ordinary circumstances cir-cumstances to kill eighty men, is something some-thing I cannot te.ll." |