Show TALE OF electrocution I 1 speight describes sensations as volts passed through body herald lying ori oil a bed of pain euf suffering fering indescribable torture la is harold 1 M I speight the survivor of an electrical s shock hock of twice the voltage of the average current used in electrocuting doomed prisoners in mew new york harold 1 M I speight is the electrician who ten days ago barely rely escaped incineration at the top of a pole at first north and main street salt lake in some manner his foot came in contact with the primary current of the utah light railway company at the same time that his hand touched the wire carrying the secondary current for the same company in a second he lie was made a human transformer between the two wires establishing tab lishing a s short hort circuit through which a current of volts volt was passing according to all rules ever established by nature and science speight should have instantly succumbed to the terrific shock shook in new york where the law prescribes the electric chair as the method of legal executions 1300 volts la Is con considered sufficient to produce death and in no cabe has more than volts been used the average current used to electrocute the convicts is from 2000 to aj 2 volts I 1 As a living exception to the lang established laws of the terrific power of the subtle force of electricity harold speight Is still alive and suffering from the effects of his terrible experience 03 a hospital cot at st marks alaras physicians though astounded at the remarkable vitality that in defiance of all rules withstood the terrible shock hock have decided that speight will survive though it is probable that he willbe will be crippled lor life I 1 a how it feels to be electrocuted ed 1 I was in the employ of the bell telephone company as cable he be said and was assigned to do some work along a line at first north and main street this work took wok me to a pole on the corner that is considered the most dangerous pole in salt lake city and is usually shunned by linemen the wires of th the e bell te telephone dephone company run along the two top arms of the pole and on three arms immediately below the telephone lines run the wires of the utah light railway company the proximity of these wires all carrying different currents renders work on this pole particularly hazardous the danger of electrocution never occurred to me and I 1 went ahead with my work testing the telephone wires I 1 was seated in a cable chair at the top of the pole and my position was somewhat cramped I 1 had been endeavoring deavo ring to get central but could not reach her I 1 changed my position somewhat when like a flash I 1 became rigid ae as a statue w the sensation ign that passed through my body Is beyond dese description rip tion it was by far the most peculiar e eullar feeling I 1 have ever experienced I 1 did not realize what had happen edat edt first and I 1 did not care for the feeling was very pleasant it seemed as though I 1 was slipping away on a cloud 1 it could not have been more than a few seconds though to me it seemed much longer than that thai thail I 1 enjoyed this sensation the most terrible pain I 1 have bave ever felt me I 1 presume that at the firs first t sudden shock the nerves were deadened but as soon as the electricity started to tp burn into the flesh the agony commenced I 1 made a desperate effort to jerk my toot foot away from the wire which held it fast but in valo vain 1 I could feel the throb of ot the dyna moes and distinctly hear the purr of machinery as though I 1 were in the tile power plant where the electricity was passing through me was being generated every muscle every fiber in my body was tense and throbbing in time to the workings of the dyr dynamo famo I 1 afterward learned that my foot ivas was touching the feed wire of the power company carrying volts and my hand touching the lighting current carrying volts the electricity was trying to make me a transformer between the two unequal currents hears central talking A all 11 the while I 1 was struggling with the terrific force that was rapidly over powering me I 1 could hear central ventral talking over the line I 1 had been testing she was wab saying IS a ving number please over and over again I 1 dimly remember that it occurred to me to tell her my predicament in the hope that ala aid might come to me 1 I tried to talk but found I 1 was unable to utter a sound the horrible throbbing and pain kept on and I 1 felt that I 1 was growing weaker and weaker the next I 1 can remember ta Is being let down from the pole on a rope 1 I felt numb I 1 all over but while I 1 was being taken to the hospital the pain revived I 1 could smell the burning flesh and an d feel the electricity eating into my bones since chett the pain has not riot left me at all I 1 slept since I 1 have been in the hospital at times timer I 1 feel the same terrible throbbing and jerking of the dynamos that I 1 felt on the afternoon when yb en my body formed part of the intricate elec machinery of the utah light railway company I 1 |