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Show Till Man I Klectrlo .'roof. New York, March 0, Joseph Ham' pel, an employe of tho Lexington avenue ave-nue cable power house, while working at his switchboard, received and survived sur-vived an clcctrio shock of about 3,000 volts. The man's body was badly burned from head to foot, every Inch of clothing cloth-ing was torn from htm and ho fell senseless through a hole instantaneously instantane-ously burned In thu floor by tho torlftc electrical power. Tho doctors who attended at-tended him say there Is no case on record rec-ord of a man withstanding a similar shock. |