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Show Receives 44,000 Volts Andjs Still Alive Dell Wilkinson Prostrated With Electric Current Is Brought Back to Life by Using Us-ing Methods in Oases of Drowning. Forty-four thousand volts of clcc. trlclty passed through A. W. Wilkinson's Wilkin-son's body last Monday morning, while ho was at work in tho pumping plant of tho Utah Lako Irrigation Compnny south of Saratoga Springs. That hi Is alive today is llttlo less than a miracle. A steel fishing rod had been left standing so as to bo slightly It. tho way, nnd when Wilkinson wont to movo It or kick It out of tho way, It camo In contact with ono of tho blf high tension wires In such a manner as to make a perfect ground nnd gle him tho full current. Ho foil to the floor with n cry, nnd when his companion, com-panion, Hornco Glllott, reached him, llfo was apparently oxtinct. Methods of resuscitating a drownd person wore employed nnd nTtcr sovoral minuter of pumping nlr Into his lungs, hit heart began to bent and with continued contin-ued offorts ho gradually regained consciousness. A doctor was telephoned tele-phoned for nud took tho mnn to. t l.ehl Hospital. Hero nu cxnmlnntlon showed that his right hnnd wns charred to the bono; several of his toes woro badly charred and n strip on ono flldo of hit foot wns burned to n crisp. Whole-over Whole-over tlicro wns anything of n meinllc nut u re Hint touched his body tho current cur-rent seemed to burn. Where his lips touched the gold lu his tcctli they were bllBtored. Tho clnsps on his hoso supporters sup-porters burned holes In his legs nud r number of holes woro burned through the, soles of Ills feet whero thoro wen nnlln lu his shoes. Wliorovor tho flesh is tints charred It will slough away nnd It will bo months beforo ho enn get around ngaln, If ho la lucky enough not to bo crippled for llfo. Mr. Wilkinson Is nbout 34 years ot ago and unmarried. His homo Is in Salt Luke whero his folks live. |
