The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-08
[ Urban lines, or 100 ordinary Broadway

Urban lines, or 100 ordinary Broadway cars.
 Flad and his associates believes that 'le was actually dead. It was twenty ight minutes before his heart began to )eat.
 No tnan can make me believe that I vas not really in he'll" says Fad. II Inow I was there. i have not the ex- .,erience to prove it. I also know that vas in heaven, and that I heard angel music and experienced the rapture of paradise"
 It is not surprising after his fearful or eSl that the man should have periods If fainting and delirium.
 One day, when telling his experiences o a visiting friend, boilermaker of ath- etic strength and giant frame, Fad sud- lenly gave a scream, leaped from bed md began swinging his losg arms, shout ng that he was going to smash things. md the boilermaker fled from the room.
 Only Flads young wife. a pretty girl If not more than IS. with an infant a year and a half old, can handle her hus- band, who Is six feet one inch high and considered one of the best-condltfoned nen of the Westinghouse works.
 Fad tAld me electricity was still com Ing out of him. and friends declare that when standing on a wet pavement if they touch him they are shocked.
 After the accident every muscle stood put like cords and rope all over his body.
 His back was a mass of knotted mus cles and for a week they had to swathe him in tight bandages to reduce them.
 It is claimed that the stinginess of the electrical company caused the accident.
 From the beginning the men protested against working in dangerous positions, perched on blanks over batteries of liv- ing wires, when making repairs.
 They asked for proper stepladders, but the manager said they must get along without them. It was not necessary to go to the expense of buying twenty or thirty stepladders for the little work that they had to do.
 A suit is threatened and the men claim that Fad should have heavy damages.
 A fund has been raised to meet the expenses of Flad's illness and pay doc tors and nurses who have attended on him at his home in Jersey City.
 All agree that no case on record can compare with Flads. No man, they say, ever received half the number of volts that passed through his body and lived
 Some say he was saved by prayer and the prompt action of the men who work ed his arms and started respiration.
 Mrs. Flad says no one could describe the horrors when her husband went into convulsions and delirium.
 asked Fad what he experienced when he drove the boilermaker from the room. 'I was having the time of my life, '' he said.
 Myself and everybody that I knew were on big automobiles each, trying to outdo the other.
 We couldn't get smashed up. but didn't care if we did. We travelled 200 miles an hour, across rivers, through lakes. over hills, up and down mountains almost through clouds
 Tt was great sport-at least thought 1t was-when we reached the top of a mountain. to shoot down a million times faster than any toboggan slide. with the automobiles red hot and devils sitting in front and behind.
 Tt was great fun, but I am scSry I frightened my friend the boilermaker.
 They say I smashed things right and left and knocked him around as if he were kitten"
 These are the men who worked Flad' s arms to bring him to life: Jack Pryor, Ralph Wetter, Frank Craig. Arthur Hol- brook, Walter Bates, William Thompson and Edward Storer.