Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-12
SIOUX CITY MAN, STRUCK ON
HEAD BY HEAVY BAR, CLAIMS
HE WAS IN PARADISE.
CANNOT BELIEVE 1T
WAS JUST A DREAM
Sees Infant Son, Who Died Several
Years Ago, and Claims to Have Con-
versed With God-lnjured Man in
Right Mind and Physicians Say He
Will Recover.

Sioux City, Aug 12.-Struck on the
timber with such force that every sign
of life disappeared and his fellow
'workmen at the power house Of the
Sioux City Service Company swore he
life and for time his spirit lived in
heaven. according to remarkable
story told by Mr.. Jones while the in
jured man lay in his bed in his room
at the Samaritan hospital.
Mr.. Jones related the story of his
gradual drifting away from the Bap-
fist church and of the strange expert
ence that has softened his heart and
made him an earnest christian. He de-
clared that he not only saw the Lord
during the brief space he was away
from earth, but that he met his boy
Clyde, who died several years ago at
the age of Is months. and shook hands
with him.
Mr. Jones, while In an unconscious
state on the operating table shortly
after he was injured, Aug. 3. repeated
the Lords prayer.
The injured man is on the road to re-
covery. DR.. ]. NJ. Kilborne who was
called when Mr.. Jones was hurt in the
service company power house. and who
has tatended him since. said that the
chances for recovery are excellent. He
said:
when I got there he looked as if
he were dead, but an examination
quickly revealed that he was not
can understand how persons of the
laity might have believed he was. The
pulse beat and the slight respiration
showed he was living. He had been
unconscious for about twenty minutes.
Right after he was hurt all signs OF
life known to the laity must have been
absent"
Mr.. Jones was struck on the crown
Of his head by heavy timber that
fell from a scaffold temporarily erected
coal. After the accident fellow en-
ployes ran and picked him up. They
thought he was dead and said so. An
undertaken was telephoned to come
and take away the body, but before he
arrived with his ambulance, the doc
tor who had been summoned on the
bare possibility OF the man still living.
arrived and declared that the case still
was one for a physician rather than
an undertaken.
Mr.. Jones now speaks nationally on
every subject. He can not be said to be
out of his head nor delirious. Yester-
day he said:
81 had the sweetest experience that
a man ever had. Some people would
call it a dream. I don't, and I never
will believe it was. was in heaven
II 1t hadn't been that my wife and
child need me here on earth I think l
should have stayed there.
az don't reuember how 1 got there,
but it seemed as tho I had just got
there some way; ] didn't know how
There was God sitting up on great
gold throne just as the Bible says.
Jesus was sitting at the right side.
There was bright light around
their heads Angels were all around.
They had wings and wore white robes.
I heard all the time the sweetest music
1 ever heard. can't describe It very
we'll. 1t was too beautiful. 1t was
something like an organ, but 1 guess If
it was an organ it was bigger than any
ever made on earth.
81 told the Lord that I repented and
wanted him to save me. and he told
me was saved. I believe he just will
ed that I should go to heaven so that
my soul could be saved and then l
could come back again to earth and
take care of my wife and child.
II met my boy, Clyde. who died a
few years ago. He was there and hap
py. He seemed to have more intelli-
gence than when he was baby, and it
looked as If he had grown some bigger.
but still not very much bigger. His
face looked just like it did when he
was on earth He died when he was