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Show YOUNG MAN MEETS DEATH AT LOCAL HOTEL Yesterday morning shortly after 8 H o'clock Harold, tho son of Mr. and H Mrs. John HniiHcn, mot death In an elevator at tho Eccles hotel. Ho was H employed by tho Western Union -H Tolegrnph company, which has Its ;H ofllco In tho hotel building. Young Hanson was running tho elovator tor tho bell boy who had taken tho " 'H clerk's desk while tho latter was at ffl broakfast. Apparently some ono on -.H an upper floor wanted somo water H and ho brought tho elevator down to '''1 tho basement to get It, falling to 1 stop tho car level with tho basement H floor It wont a short distance below jsBBBB when tho power was automatically 'xsiijfl shut off. On such occasions tho man iijH oporatlng the elovator Is supposed lsisH JJJJJJJJJJJBJBJ to call tho engineer to put tho eloc- H trlcal switch In contact again whllo H ho handles tho lover instdo tho car. 'H Tho boy, lmwovor, evidently put tho H lovor In position for tho lecvator to ascend. Ho stepped over a short H dlstanco nnd with a billiard cuo ,H t cached out and pushed the switch 'H Into placo again which started tho ,H car upwards. Ho ovldoutly failed to vtjBLsfl catch tho car In tlmo to step Into It, i B eo gr.isplug tho floor of tho cago ,H with IiIh linnda ho nttoninteil to cot iSSisa ilnto tho car but not being nblo to J get-In there soon enough part of his '1 bocl.was !i,tha cago and part of It VtsLsfl out of "tho cage: .In this position ho !sisB wna duiggeil fr5m the basement to sisB the fourth floor. Engineer Lauren- sen, who heard tho crlon of. tho boy' tt stopped tho elovator by throwing tho , j switch out In tho basemgnt. Tho olovator shaft doors, on tho fourth 1 isisisifl floor1 wcto pried opon as rapidly as H posslblo leloaslng the' body and Dr. H D. C. Budgo summoned. According H IsisV to Dr. Budgo thoboy's intrels wore H terribly mutilated whero his stomach 'ijij! rested on tho edgo of tha elovator floor. Ono arm was broken and his . , H splno was dislocated and separated 9bILH for a space of about ton inches. The v 'iiafl clothing and skin had been com- iH pletcly scraped from his shoulders. " Judge C. T. Barrett held an Inquest ' at the Llndqulst Undertaking par ' V lors and subpoenea! Messrs. George H Dunbar, S. E. Needham and Dr. I. H P. Stowart to act as Jurymen. The U evidence of Engineer Laurensen was ttaarA fintt nidi. ttinaA wlin i.Ata...A BSSSSSI the body, and the ovidonce given by H the doctor. 'Whether or not. a death of this M kind will bo covered by the state in-! M U us trial insurance act, we do not -. gH know, but' Chairman Pi A. Thatcher D tof the Industrial commission was M present at the hotel a few minute M nfter the accident and got the full ifll details of it. jJSi |