Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — Death and Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Death and Electricity.

A writer in an electrical magazine, in discussing the probabilities of death by an electric current, said that he at one time stood at the top of one of the Alpine peaks in a storm a-nd had lightning pass through his body to an extent sufficient to make a loud, crackling noise and to produce long blue streams of sparks from the fingers, without any effect upon the body other titan to force him to descend without delay.