The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

BE quiet. You are in the Fordham Hos
pital, and will recover, We think.
BELIEVES HE WAS IN HELL.
Such was the narrative told by the man
who died. For many days after this In the
midst of conversation with friends he
would faint or go into commissions, but all
the while the CHASTITY wounds in his head
burned flesh and skull to a clnder slowly
healed. An expert said, after some fgur-
ing, that the voltage which had shot
through Flad's body was three times
the elevated trains. The current that
famed from Flad's head would have run
hundred ordinary Broadway cars.
Flad and his associates believe that he
was actually dead. 1t was fwenty-eight
minutes s., before his heart began to beat eat;
and was enduring the tormsnts of the
damned. when God answered their prayers
and translated him into heavsn.
mo man can make me believe that was
not really in hell. i know was there. I
have had the experience to prove II. / also
know that 1 was In heaven. and that L
heard angel music and experienced the
rapture OF paradise"
1t is not surprising. after his fearful or
deal, that the man should have periods OF
fatnting and delirium. One day, when tell
ing his experiences to a visiting friend. a
boilermaker of athletic strength and giant
frame, Flad suddenly gave a scream,
leaped from bed ana began swinging his
long arms, shouting that he was going to
smash things, and the boilsrmaker fed
from the room.
Only Flad's young wife. a pretty girl of
year and a half old, can handle her hus-
band. who Is six feet one Inch high and
considered one of the best conditioned men
Of the Westinghouse works.
Flad told me electricity was still coming
out of him, and friends declare that when
standing on wet pavement they touch
him they are schocked. After the accident
every muscle stood out like cords and ropes
all over his body. His back was a mass OF
knotted muscles. and for a week they had
to swathe him in tight bandases to reduce
them.
1t is claimed that the stinsiness OF the
electrical company caused the accident
From the beginning the .mtn protested
against working In dangerous positions.
perched on pianks over battetfes of living
wires, when making repairs. They asked
for proper stepladders, but the manager
was not necessary to go TO tse expense OF
buying twenty or thirty steplsdders for the
little work that they had TO dc.
sui is threatened and the men claim
fund has been raised to meet the expenses
OF Flad's illness and pay doctors and nurses
who have attended on him az his home In
record can compare with F'iaa.s. No man.
they, say, ever received half the number
of volts that passed through his body and
HNeu some say ne Was saved py prayer
and the prompt action Of the men who
worked his arms and started respiration.
Mrs. Flad says no one coulc describe tho
! horrors when her husband went into con-
vulsions and delirium.
l asked Flad what he experienced when
he drove the boilermaker from the room.
Il was having the time OF my life" he
said Myself and everybody that / knew
were on big automobiles, each tryins TO
Guido the other. We couldn't get smashed
up. but didn [ care IL We did. We Travelled
two hundred miles hour across rivers,
mountains almost through clouds. Ii was
great sport-at least 1 thought IL was
when we reached the top of a mountain.
red hot and devils sitting IN front and
behind. Ii was great fun, but am sorry
/ frightened my friend the boilermaker.
They say 1 smashed things fight and left
and knocked MIN around as IL he were =
kitten.