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Show HEROIC TREATMENT BRING8 BACK LIFE Ambulance Attendants Restore Vital Ity In Spite Of Verdict Of Physician San Francisco, Oct 7. An hour's heroic treatment brought ha-: Blgna o'f life here today In tho body ot Dcrt Edgar, an electrician aftor ho had been pronounced dead from a shock of 2.100 volts of olect.uclty. Be8ldo tho shock, Edgar wa suffering suffer-ing from a fractured skull, rocoved when the electricity threw him from ti platform fifteen feet abovo tho ce ment floor of tho basement of a down-office down-office building Ho may get weU, It was said ttday at the emergency hi-spltal. Tho accident happened yesterday and a physician In tho building pronounced pro-nounced Edgar dead. Herman Krecs-mayor Krecs-mayor and Adam Baker, ambulance attendants decided, however that tho cessation ot heart action was duo to tho terrllllc shock and might bo restored. re-stored. Baker and a patrolman ran Edgar's apparently lifeless body up nnd down tho street, with tho feet touching touch-ing tho pavement, while Krecamaycr struck him obout tho chest and shoulders, and oil threo shouted continuously con-tinuously Into his ears. After an hour of nearly continuous treatment of this sort, Interruptions being caused by well meaning passers by who thought Edgar was bolng bcateu up. Edgar showed Blgns of life, "and wns rushed to tho hospital. Ho was found to havo a good chanco to recover. |