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THREE PERSONS KILLEDTwo Girls and Man Victims in St.Paul Accident.St. Paul, March 14.—Two girls and a man are dead, one girl fatally injured and several others hurt, as the result of an elevator accident in the wholesale fur house of Gordon Ferguson today.The elevator fell four floors and the dead and injured were pinioned in wreckage at the bottom of the shaft.Mason Johnson, the elevator operator, told Coroner Jones that when he closed the gates after discharging passengers at the fourth floor, the elevator started to slip down. The clutch failed to work.The elevator gathered momentum, and when it struck the bottom of the shaft the counter* balance weight at the top dropped.The names of the dead follow: Tilly Buering, eighteen; William Zechischa, thirty*seven; Gertrude Schmidt. Those injured: May Conklin, eighteen; Ven-ette Vernier, twenty; Maud Buellow, twenty-four; Mrs. Vera Halig, Anna Hoeller, sixteen. The elevator carried twelve passengers.
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Jeffersonville Daily Reflector
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 16, 1911
Page 4
Full Page
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Kokomo-Howard C.
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