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Show ONE IS KILLED IN ELEVATOR ACCIDENT EAST ST. LOUIS. 111., March 27.-One person was killed, one seriously injured ' ' and four escaped unhurt in an elevator accident In the Livingston building. The elevator became unmanageable while descending and dropped from the first floor to the basement. It as suddenly rose again to the fifth floor and then plunged toward ths bottom. Ths Jerk broke one of ths heavy counter-weights, which crashed through ths top of the car. striking strik-ing Herman Engler and crushing him so i seriously that he died an hour later, i E. F. Calbert. the Janitor, who was set- I ing ss ths elevator conductor and was 1 standing beside Engler. eeoapsd injury, I while Jim Butler, standing on the other I side of Engler, was seriously injured. n , . |