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Show CAN MAN STAND 2,000 VOLTS? A report hns come from New York ot A nun having received an electric shock sufficient to run four lines of trolley and to furnish hundreds ot lights, and yet ho lived to tell of It-This It-This Is tho story: "New York special: Joseph Hampol, nn employe of tho Islington avenue cabla power house, whlla working at his switchboard received and survived an electric shock ot about 2,000 volts. Tho roan's body was burnt d black from head to foot: overy stitch of clothing was torn from him and ho fell senseless sense-less through a holu Instantaneously burned In tho floor by the terrific electrical elec-trical power. The doctor who attended at-tended him toy thero Is no case on record rec-ord ot a man withstanding a similar shock. The accident was caused through Ilampel trying to tighten a loose screw on the switchboard and In somo wny creating a circuit. Tho enormous power of tho shock may to Judged from tho tact that until the circuits wero readjusted all tho cars ot the road were brought to a standstill." The report Is discredited In Chicago Ono ot tho leading electricians ot the Kdlson company said: "Such a thing could not occur, and I regard the dispatch dis-patch purely as a 'fairy tale,' It re- quires a current of from seventeen to 2,W0 volts In cases of electrocution.and if tho report ot Joseph Ilampel be correct, cor-rect, then I say many persons having been electrocuted and declared sclen-fiscally sclen-fiscally dead have been burled alive At. no current of 2,000 volts could turn a hole In a floor largo enough for a man to fall through " City Klectrlclan Kdward II, Klllcott ill on the subject "It Is Impossible for the man to have received so great a shock In a power house, for no street ctr lino In tho United States uses a grestor current than 500 volts Agsln If the man's body was burned black It vrss not from tho electrical shock, for It Is not reported as forceful enough to cause hlm t0 turn color, but must hii been caused by the burning of his clothes, u Is possible for a man to survive a shock of 2,000 volts, provided provid-ed It did not strike him on a vital P01- 0n of the city electricians was Injured last year by current of 4,000 volts force, and no holes were made In til floor, nor did his clothing catch Ire, but ho lived. Tho blow csmo on his rin, between the hand and elbow. He was In a hospital for six months, snd after that seemed to be sll right," -CMcsgo Chronicle. |