The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-01

dramatists call novel effects" -.s
matter OF fact / would not repeat my
new sensation" OF Monday for twenty
thousand dollars OF any mans money.
Let me tell you about IT,
i went TO Madison Square Garden TO see
the McFadden- o Brien boxing match.
After IL was over / rode down town and
at the Park Row entrance TO the Brook
lyn bridge took Fulton street open
trolley car for my home in Brooklyn.
about three miles distant. a.
When about half way home was rest
ing on my heavy umbrella in a condition
between drowsily awake and half asleep.
Suddenly there was an explosion and
n great blaze went up into the air from
underneath the car. The passengers, es-
pecially the ladies. became alarmed and
terrifiedly screamed.
The next instant I was either shocked
or thrown of the car and l fell full
length on the street, with my umbrella
twisted into a shapeless mass beneath me.
My first impression was that / was dy-
ing. having been electrocuted. and that
just enough of sensibiity remained to
enable me 10 family distinguish objects
as I was passing from earth.
Say, gentle readers, that was sensa-
ton that I never want to experience
again. I have often written about peo-
pie "eashing In their checks kicking
the bucket and otherwise shuffiing off
their mortal coils. but when felt that
was passing over the great divide to join
the vast majority gone before the reali-
zation was something agonizing.
Had the wealth of the whole world
would have gladly have parted with II for
the assurance of one more day OF life.
Lying on the street short distance
from me was fellow passenger groaning
and moaning, apparently I'm great agony.
! felt no pain. and just had consciousness
enough To touch the street I'm front OF me
with my hand 10 ascertain II the electric
fluid was permeating IT,
Then the screams of the women more
fully aroused me. and with a tremendous
effort drew up my knees, and got my
feet beneath me and In condition Of
semi-limpness. rose erect. l still held
the wreck Of my umbrella I'm my hand.
but when | essayed 10 go TO the aid Of
the groaning man. / reeled like man
staggering about the deck OF a vessel In
a seaway.
gentleman took me by the arm and
said Are you badly hurt?" I looked up
at him with an inquiring stare. ! could
hardly realize that / was alive and when
did fully comprehend that / was, and
was not I'm gnostland, the JOY of that fact
Is indescribabie.
MY attire from shoulder TO heel was
covered with dust and mud Then I felt
a pain i'm the region of the small OF my
back and also down my right thigh and
leg.
Several men carried my groanins fellow
passenger TO drug store. and l have
since learned that they took him TO a hos
pital I'm an ambulance.
In about fifteen minutes all the electri-
cal apparatus of the car that was COM
bustible had burned itself out, and the
passengers again boarded II. Another
trolley car came up behind and pushed us
along toward our destination I was
helped up TO n seat, and got home half an
hour later. fee.ng half dazed. sore and
generally as nervous as a cat.
! don't know how nervous n ssst is but
I do know that I trembied like leaf. and
even after I had received the loving min
istrations OF my wife could hardly rest
In bed
BY aud by a sense OF drowsiness came
over me, and for two hours or over
feared 10 20 asleep. the dread being that
if did, as the Irishman said "a might
wake up and and myself dead"
To-Day feel as trembly and as shaky as
a man enjoying all the delg".s CD OF
Natzeniammer.
| know that the above description Of
my latest sensation doesn't 40 the subject
Justice. but | want to say To all my
friends tina, n the best can do just At
present
Yours. ell broken Uply
J. b. ('HAcoN') } MCCORMICK.