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■tid *-«»-!- tor drunkenness and $T» and cost* U*x reflating an officer. He taok the doflr pretty nard.MKIII IImt* Haen Worn.At A tew minute* after seven o'clock last night ibc passenger *ir\a!or at the Lagouda House fell from the fourth floor altnoei to the lower Moor, n distance of about thirty-five or forty feet. The only occupant of the car wae j Ihire Wilburn, the drj*ot runner, and be was more badly seared than hurt. Wilboro had taken the ear up and had just pulled the rope !•» nurt it down again when something broke and the ear came down like greased lightn ng. The lately apparatus which is attached to the elevator did it* work perfectly, as far n* stopping the mr was con-remed. the only trouble being that it did not do it quirk enough. The elevator oar I •topj*H between the first and second | floors, and there it now remains until repaired. The mirror in the ear was broken and the globes on the fixture* were •mashed to atom- The !»ell l«ecame detached from its position »ud fell sinking Mr. Wilhorn on the forehead and knocking bm senseless. As soon a- pusdbie he was removed trom the | cage and at first it was thought he was dead. In n short time however he gotorer f#f fright and was all right again. Had the ear gone through to the cel- j lar and struck the ground Wilborn would | undoubtedly hare been killed, and the ear ^ damaged much worse than it n*.
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Springfield Globe Republic
Springfield, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1885
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