Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Paralyzed by Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Paralyzed by Electricity.

Cleveland dispatch, Oct 8. Mary Harmon, the pretty nineteen-year-old daughter of a farmer living in Lorain, thirty n>SVi» f~£» Cleveland, was engaged to be married to Jacob Ebenin, an employe in one of the electric light establisment here. *„Some montns ago Miss Harmon came to Cleveland, and, with a party of friends, paid a visit to the establishment» where her affianced worked. Whiie passing through the shop Miss Harmon received a severe shock o: electricity, and fell to the flour. In a few minutes she recovered sufficiently to be removed from the place, and was taken home. Medical aid was summoned. For four days the girl lay in bed in a paralyzed condition. Then she regained toe use of her limhs, but immediately began to loose flesh. The hair on the left side of her head turned gray and began falling out. After four weeks Miss Harmon was able to be about and attend to most of her houshold duties, but in that time she had been transformed fronj a healthy girl to a feeble and prematurely old woman. Her form, which had been plump and rounded, is thin and bent, and the akin on her face and body is dry and wrinkled. Her voice is hard and cracked, and no one would imagine that she, is less than sixty years of age. The physicians claim that the electric current communicated directly with the principle nerves of the spine and left side of the head, and that the shock almost destroyed their vitality.