Show I DOOLY ELEVATOR OES ON TEAR j i I i I I Serious Accident Is Narrowly r I Averted in Office I I 1 I I Building I 1 I 1 j I An accident which might have bave resulted seriously occurred on one erie of or the elevators I in tn the Dooly Dool building at lf 19 1 3 Thursday morning The Tue east elevator in charge of Frank Fr Jones a boy b y about 16 lit years ears old carrying i three men from the tile second floor got be beyond beyond yond lyond I the tIme control antI and crashed to toI I i the round floor loo Jones became frightened and jumped out of or tbs tb car C r The elevator commenced to jerk up and own and threatened to break breal away toward the top of ot the build building lag ing In 0 oC O tho passengers In In the car en On endeavored endeavored to w throw the thi lever leer but hut failed Charles Chilver engineer of ot the build building buIldIng buildIng ing signaled to the th other elevator which was at the top of the building Upon pon re receiving receiving receiving the signal from the engineer r in inthe Inthe inthe the basement Joseph JOeph E Baird tire tho young man in charge eh hastily lowered his hi car cai Before it reached rached the basement en engineer engineer n rushed rush 9 up U to lO the ground floor and crawled into th car The floor of the car which was wa slowly working its way upward was wa within two wo inches of crush crash crushing crushIng ing lag the time engineers legs against the th rail rall railing ing when he gripped the brought the car to a standstill He lIe then lowered it to the ground floor Ioor and discharged the thc passengers Young Baird when he lie reach reached ed the basement realizing the danger sprang to the guard ropes of or the ilia elevator and was making a brave effort to stop the car t wimp when the engineer threw on the brake Ij In In jumping from the car ar Jones sustained slight injuries In answering the call to the th second floor he had bad forgotten to close time the th door leading from the main en entrant entrance n trance tram e to the elevator shaft shatto Jones was wal discharged |