Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1911 — ESCAPES DEATH; RESIGNS. [ARTICLE]

ESCAPES DEATH; RESIGNS.

Lineman Who Resisted High Voltage Gives Up Dangerous Work. Logansport, Ind., April 3. ‘‘Fate was kind to me once, but l am not going to tempt it again,” exclaimed John Grable as he walked into the city electric light office and resigned. While working on an electric light pole he received , a shock of 2,200 volts and was knocked" unconscious. His life belt saved him from tailing to the ground. Grable said: “By every law of electricity I now ought to be dead. For some reason I was not killed and I appreciate the fact so much that 1 am going to quit.” Grable had taken the place made vacant by the death of Harry Cragun, who was killed by a shock of only two hundred volts.