Show THOUGHT IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE r 1 Elevator Elevator In tile the Joint Building Drops Quito a Distance BADLY SOARED A ns Heard Ui 1 Over Oer No o 00 ot hurl Shorty Shortly b fore noon p people In InthE inthe thE Joint city and count county building were startled upon hen hearing ring Q a loud tumblIng noll noise that lasted seconds ha ts that 1 huts ts 7 WI was ul upon on the lifis of at everybody In an In etan rime rhe ciarlO lork In th various de on all tie the floors Iad made tr tor the 1116 doors looked UI and down thi corn dor dots arid and B seeing nothing unusual oem eon eluded I it must have been another Dan fras a en engage engaged gage arguing against 1 a for before Judge Cher Cherry when tIre the racket occurred Now Dan can make a pretty strong powerful argument when whon he gets warmed to his but not so o strong and ns as to shake the tho buildIng In that manlier Everybody In the court oom heard the rumpus jurors started In their seats seat antI and Attorney liar rIng rington ton stopped talking Judge I Chr Cherry with much warmth In Instructed Johnson to go amid tell those people to close the lors doors wih with more care Johnson started or off to fn find the of oC the tho courts dignity but bel being unable to loate locate him returned empty empt handed FIve minutes later a representative of the News went vent to the elevator shat shaft shafton on the Third floor and pressed the alarm buton but there was no reo re Peering through the troll Iron o en entrance trance gate he observed d the lle do ator a few tew tel feet below Supposing the power was as of off again and that the tho elevator In consequence had topped stopped running the reporter was waa proceeding to walk away when he wal was by the sound of at mens voices corin from the direction of the elevator Thu Tho reporter yelled down th the shaf shaft and asked Jf if there WiS was anybody hurt No but wed ved like to get out ot of this d elevator replied a voice whIch was Instant Instant recognized I as belonging to Attorney George L Nye No the tho mater matter further enquired the reo re reporter porter Why were hung up between heaven and earth arth replied another voice lee which sounded like Sherlf Sheriff What can I to do for you ou Why 10 go and tel tell Mr Lawrence the engineer to como come hare at on once cO other vise Sam Dowse wi will faInt way away caled accent called out another voice with Q a Swedish Th The reporter did as requested Fifteen teen minutes late the elevator was dropped to the ground floor tind ll six badly men stepp stepped out of ofte te the cage They were Attorneys Nye Ne Bramel 1 and Stul Stull Sheriff Deputy Deput Sheriff Dowse and Janitor Johnson Those worthies got Into time the elevator In iii the basement Operator Gulbransen touched the electric buton button when up went trent the Ut lift only tf to drop down don again Then It bounded UI anti and down like an India rubber bal ball fInally coming to a standstill between the third and second flors floors Tile he Jassen sels geus al alt say I it was the worst vorst scare they ever eer In ther their lives The cause 0 of I Ithe the accident was the breaking of at lL a I C steel bal ball In the lar large e down In inthe the engine room Lawrence Irence I I immediately set to work repairing the I damage and In a couple of hour hours the elevator Wis was again runnIng IlS as though nothing hail happened I 0 |