| Show I TAMPERS ELEVATOR i Impatient Passenger Takes Count Co 1 1 I Lift hilt Into lib Own Hands Wih Startling Ic lIS What hat ml ht have havo been a I serious In but which fortunately proved to tobe be ho only an ni affair of ot deep concern concer anc and amI delay dola to a it number of if tt persons nt at the tho city el and county 1 building carb carly rh this morning Shortly Shorty before S Harold King time tile IiI elevator operator stepped for to n a n moment from the tho caffi and und during his absence It was Wn entered by Iy h O 0 H II 1 Skidmore and allt several other people Including two ladles who Is electrical Inspector In the tho office omeo of ot tho ho city elly engineer took upon ln himself to give the passengers a I lift It He Ire Io start started ed ell the tho machinery all right by b pressing the tho button bulon hut but as the tho cage cao began tt to ascend In a ii 0 Jerky manner Illmer ho excited and In manipulating tile tho sarI varl rl one oils OiS keys In n an endeavor to stop a I short shor circuit was WIS effected and und the cage was aa beyond control Tile Tho To elevator went within a toot foot fot o or two of the tho top tOil and ond then gradually do de nearly to the basement of th the building whore where It I stopped half hulf way WiY between two landings making It U VIm Im Impossible possible for tor tho the occupants to got get out There Them ero they remained for tor an nn hour while Engineer Sid Ild COM Case C was WIS Wa repair repairIng log Ing IIII the tho havoc that hud had been w wrought wrought rough l hI y foolishness The entire face of the witch switch that controls the tle do valor was w burned burnell and had bud hll to be flied filed to produce a I rough rugh surface before betor tho the ma ml could again alin bo ho started While hlo repairs were going ou on the cage cag load of lt passengers were Imprisoned while the tho many mAn persons employed In th tho thi building as ns well voil ns as al persons having business to t attend to In the tho various of flees were compelled to walk walt up anc and down tho stairs action was 18 severely ly criticised by many persons Ir in Irand II inand and about I tho the building today Engineer Case Co says the cage clO Is a avery avel avet very vet vel ate a d reliable one or chances chancH for fol an nn oscO from injury would have ben been very vel slight The Tho elc dc valor Vator Wile was moro more titan thun likely to have gone gono through tim the thE roof root or 01 to have havo fallen flon to tho time bottom of oC tho the shaft In 11 either case cuse It Il would have havo meant great Injury and perhaps 1 death de h to the th load of pas pasIl passengers Il n ge rs V |
