Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — Workman Nearly Electrocuted. [ARTICLE]

Workman Nearly Electrocuted.

One of the workmen on the steel front being put up at the First National Bank building narrowly escaped a very serious accident Saturday. He was drilling in the steel with an electric drill and touched one of his hands to the steel frame. By this a circuit was made and one hundred and ten volts of electricity passed through his body. His body sank down and he would liave fallen headfirst from the scaffold to the cement several feet beow had his condition not been noticed by bystanders, who rushed under him and prevented his falling.