The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
DID HE SEE THE OTHER WORLD?
Story Of Kansas City Who Had $500 Volts Of Electricity
Thru His Body the Westinghouse Power PlanHe
Have Visited Hell and Heaven While He Was "Dead'-Hi
ss# Strange Recovery. a

of them were dwarfs and hunchbacks,
little and big brownie looking crea-
lures, but all monstrous and horrible.
Every face was wrinkled. There was
"a malignant leer, sort Of maniac
laugh on every side.
II saw them dancing and gibbering
as they caught their victims crawling
from bloody pools, and hurled them
like ninepins into furnaces. Near me
We're groups Of these tortured ones.
with their tongues out, half blinded
with blood, and as they were dragged
to the furnaces they bit their arms in
agony. All this / saw at a sweep Of
ton.
A Nightmare Race.
Finally the monsters made a rush
for me. 1t was nightmare race to
get away. Many time I was far in
advance, when a cloud of devils
sWooped out of space and cut off my
retreat, dancing and making hideous
grlmaces. | managed to escape, until
at last squad Of fiends, more crooked
and greener than the others, caught
me in their long, Shiny arms, on which
| the scales fairly ratified, and sticking
their claws into me, dragged me to a
big furnace, belching fire from roof
and windows. They got me SO near
! that was scorched, my hair on fire,
and thought the end had come. Just
| as they were tossing me into the flames
l must have prayed for help-at any
rate, help came. saw the bloody
| landscape and the green monsters
fading as in dream, as the most
| beautiful music ever heard by man
came waited to my ears.
ITO say that I was entranced does
not half express it. At first it was like
murmur, a, soft, whispering melody
from every place, from the ground
! from the clouds, it was like cathedral
music, only a million times more beau
tiful. Ny Joy was SO great after my
struggle. with the fends that I nearly
collapsed.
Then my wandering eyes saw pal,
aces coming out of the very sky. They
/ pinnacles soaring into the clouds
These palaces were of crystal, clear
as glass and glittering like diamonds
Then I said to myself, I am in heav.
en- I had heard much of the Other
world, but what I saw was beyond
any mans power to describe.
| There were avenues as wide as {
| city. The pavements We're Of sole
gold and dazzling to the eyes.
Meanwhile the music was changing
every minute in beauty and sweetness
Far up in the sky saw palaces, anC
! beyond them - were palaces - the
scene like a fairy picture-and yet
ments. Instead Of walking, had bu
to wish to be in a place and 1 was
there. I saw group of temples al
the end OF golden avenue wider thar
the others. wished could see it an(
instantly found myself under its crys
tai arches with the corridors resplend
ent with heavenly light, The music
/ grew sweeter every: moment. ex
. amined everything minutely, but tt
my surprise did not see living crea
Iture-neitherr angels nor human being!
tho searched thru miles Of temple:
and corridors The scene was Away:
changing, always more beautiful, an(
the music becoming grander."
eEg Believes He Was in He'll.
Such was the narrative told by thu
man who died. For many days, afte1
i this in the midst Of conversation Will
friends he would faint or go into con
vulsions, but all the while the ghastl,
wounds in his head and arm where
the electric flame had burned flesh anc
skull to a cinder slowly healed. Al
expert said after some figuring tina
the voltage which had shot thr,
Flad's body was three times create
lIdt1f the current required TO run TIT
elevated trains.
mo man can make me believe tina
was not really in hell. + know
was there. have had the experience
to prove it. I also know that / wa
in heaven, and that ] heard ange
music and experienced the rapture o
paradise.
+ It is not surprising after his fearful
1 ordeal that the man should hav
/ periods of fainting and delirium. On
day when telling his experiences to
visiting friend, boilermaker of ath
letic strength and giant frame, Fla,
suddenly gave a scream, 1eaped from
bed and began swinging his long arms
i shouting that he was going to smasl
things, and the boilermaker fled from
the room.
I Only Flad's young wife, prett
girl of not more than Is. with an in
FAINT a, year and a half old, can handl
her husband, who isr6 feet / inch hig.
and considered one of the best con
ditioned men of the Westinghouse
!. works.
Flad said electricity was still com
ing out of him, and friends declar
| that when standing on wet paveme en-
| If they touch him they are shocked
After the accident every muscle stoo
out like cords and ropes all over hi
body. His back was a mass of knotte
| muscles, and for a week they had t
swathe him in tight bandages to re
, duce them.
: THE PEELs.
4 Judge.
: r. With majestic grace tha stately cbfn ,1oft l