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Show lipifsEi- WtlvFALL:- t 1 At?? SALT L-VKE CITY. Juno lO.-Mlss May 1'eterson. 19 years of age, elevator eleva-tor operator at tho Ncwbouse. Hotel, narrowly escaped death yesterday morning when an elevator dropped rroni the top. or tho building to" the basement, a distance of 14 stories. S'ho was reported Improving from severe se-vere shock at the L. D. S. hospital last night. No evidence of broken bones was discovered although her condition yesterday pfovWfed a thor-jouBhbxa'mlnatlon' thor-jouBhbxa'mlnatlon' ; 'That Miss' Peterson, escaped Instant; In-stant; dcatli. U considered' miraculous by. (hose. who Investigated the accident. acci-dent. W. A. Johnson, assstaut manager man-ager of the hotel, said that sho had driven "the car into the elevator tower, tow-er, on tho roor of tho building, and that in ascending the car struck the beam at tho end or the shart wltn such force that the copper cover o the car was crushed and tho cable wjh loosened. The fall or the elevator was broken brok-en five times by the safety appliances before It reached the basement which probably accounts Tor the fact that the girl was not killed. Not even the mirrors In the car wero broken, nc- cording to Mr. Johnson. Th'o 'screams of the-girl as tho elevator el-evator Tell wero henra throughout the building. A large crowd ot employes em-ployes and guests rushed to tho basement base-ment and opened tho elevator doors. I expecting to rind her dead. She was not unconscious but was surrerlng extremely rrom shock. After a hur-ried hur-ried examination by a physician she was taken to the hospital. Mr. Johnson was unable to explain why Miss Peterson had driven the car Into the elevator tower, unless ror some reason or other sho had lost control or tho car In ascending. She has been in tho employ or the company com-pany for some tlm ar.d is an experienced exper-ienced elevator operator. Her moth-er moth-er and sister, who are also employed nt the hotel wero In tho building at the time of the nrcidmt. |