DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2286, 21 November 1889, Page 2

DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.

The terrible anoertalaty of e'eo'.rlolty In Its effects upon the hamaabody was never batter illustrated than In the oaso of Mr H. M. Stevens, Boston, who, four years ago, received a shook equivalent to 1500 volts — the greatest on record, we believe. The fsot that he recovered, after awful agony, and Is to-day a healthy and robusman, argues strongly against the olalm of eleotiioal experts that electricity affords a simple and effioaolous method of prqduoing death. Mj Stavens is assistant superlatendent of the Boston Eleotrio Light Company, He was superintendent four years ago of the Middlesex Eleotrio Lighting Company, Lowell, Massachusetts. Jn making a tour of inspection of tbe maoblnes lie came In contact with tbe of an 85 light dynamo. He slipped upon an oily spot on the floor, fell forward, Instinctively pat out both hand's to save himself, and on wittingly grabbad with either band tbe positive and negative brashes of the machine. A circuit was oompleted, with his body as the medium, and a force of eleoUlolty equal to 50,000 I candle power, or about 1500 volts, shot instantaneously through him, and prostrated him violently m the field of the machine. There he lay fojt a few seoonds, the ourrent all the tlmß entering his body, until finally, from bis own weight, be dropped off to the floor. To all appearances he was dead. Mr Stevens, however, waa not dead. He was plotted up and carried away. The palsa and the | heart showed no algns of life. The eyes ! were set, the limbs wore rigid, and the acini were drawn olo«a to the body, The flesh waa oold- The medical men pounded a.qd robbed for an hoar, bat tbe body never moved a musole. It was at this point that tha unforeseen, by some oalied tbe. miraculous, happened, Mr Stevens bad alt the while bean Insulated with enough eleotrlolty m his system to charge another machine. Ho had been lying all the time on the floor. An attendant at the station suggested placing the body on the ground, where It was damp. This was dono and Mr Stevens began to revive. After an hoar the patient beowie oooeoloas, bat it was the oonsQloasneia of agony. The eleotilolty was slowly passing out of the body Into the ground, After treating him for a oouple of weeks, the doptoss brought him round, bat from that d&y to this Me Stevecs has carried the reminders of that torrible oh^tge of 1500 volkn m hia body. H,a \r* aort of dynamo i all m bimßßlf. Q Q J a very sensitive to the, ftpp.joatth or pyenenoe" of a, tbunderstorm, and always feols depveaaed!, $u,tiog its coutlanance, A^tbo ohar^o which *t is proposad to' e^e^Qte wucdoreijs tn New York, sinqelhe r^w iaw on th« aub-« J9ot has enacted, is no grantee than that Yfliloh pasae^ throngh Mr Stevens' body, it is open to qaestlon whether thoy will be killed »t all.

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