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Show SEVERAL MB BV ELECTRICITY Miss Ora Gill Has Thrilling Experience. Experi-ence. With a Telephone. Salt like. Nov. 19 Miss On GUI. nineteen years of age, daughter of Mr and Mrs, David It. Gill, was severely seve-rely burned and shocked by elect riclt on Friday morning. Miss Gill at the time, was'engageii In assisting Mrs. M. J. Hardin In her boukkeeplng. A telephone tele-phone call was responded to hv Miss Gill, and imme-diately urn.n taking the receiver the young woman was subjected sub-jected to a high voltagu that is Dor. utilized In the telephone service. It was later supposed, be representatives representa-tives of the light and railway company, com-pany, who were sent to examine into the trouble, that one of tho high tension ten-sion wires had loeime grounded, and that the current was in that way transferred to tho telvphone circuit. Miss Gill's left hand wa.s severely liunied, and she was rendered unconscious uncon-scious for two hours. Dr. C. F. Wilcox, Wil-cox, who was called In tho case, says that there will be no serious results however, although the nervous shuck for a time appeared to approach a fatality. fa-tality. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin and their son. Rothwell, did all In their power to relievo Ml6s Gill In her distress, and it Is hoped that kind care and proper attention will restore th young lady to her former gcrod health. |