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Show oo MANY BLINDED BY GAZING AT LIGHT Anderson, Ind., Oct. 28. Nineteen persons aro reported to have been stricken blind ab a result of .gazing at a light caused by workmen welding with an electrical process on a trolley trol-ley wire early yesterday, according to local physicians who were called out of bed to troat tho cases. Several Sev-eral who saw the light were not stricken until a few hours later. John Hagel of Hamilton, O., who is here visiting his mother, was playing cards in a lodge room when he shoved back his chair and exclaimed "I'm going blind." He was assisted to the home of his mother and had not regained his sight tonight. Practically all of the nineteen nine-teen reported to physicians were kept 1 In dark rooms all of the day. i A local eye specialise said laot night that in each ca8e attended by him tho Inside of the eyelid wnu greatly Irritated. Irri-tated. He gave as his theory that the peculiar rays of light gh'en out by the welding process caused the quick development of bacteria, already al-ready lodged In the eye, and blindness blind-ness resulted. |