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Show HENRY CRAFTS M IN OGDEN l Henry Crafts, tho house carpenter of the Hotel Utah, who was crushed to death In Salt Lake Monday forenoon fore-noon at 9 o'clock, wliilc on duty, was well known In this city, where he spent the winter of 190S. While raising rais-ing a freight elevator In the hotel building earl, in the forenoon Mr. Crafts was caught between the elevator ele-vator cage and the second floor, and received injuries of which he died In the L. D S. hospital an hour later. After the accident it was necessary for the Are company to batter down a concrete and steel wall in order to extricate the imprisoned carpenter. It took the Bremen fifteen minutes to release the man from the death trap. Mr. Crafts was 51 years of age. His daughter is the wife of John T. Scaich, who was formerly an em-plove em-plove of the Utah Light & Railway company at Salt Lako. Alfred Glad-well, Glad-well, a subscription collector who resides re-sides In this city, was an intimate friend of Mr. Crafts. |