Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — RATHER A CLOSE CALL. [ARTICLE]

RATHER A CLOSE CALL.

During the storm Wednesday afternoon, which, by the way, was the severest electric storm of the season. Ed Karatz, a tailor ing for B. K. Zimemrman, was severely shocked by electricity coming into the room over a light wire. He had a pair of shears in his hand at the time, and the shock knocked him over. He had partly straightened up from this when another nearby flash tumbled him over again, and while B, K. and his other tailor were assisting Eddie back on his bench still another flash came, toppling him over once more, so full of electricity was h’ z . A doctor was called and he was so far recovered after a couple of 'hdurs to be removed tQ his boarding house, and is now all right once more. But ’twas a close call.