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Show KILLED IN HOSPITAL ELEVATOR ACCIDENT Salt Lake. Aug 9. Joseph McEll-roy, McEll-roy, 40 years of age. a patient at the county hospital, was Instantly killed when caught between the elevator and the wall of the shaft at 5 30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. McEllroy was subject to epileptic seizures. Leaving the dining room on the basement floor after the evening meal, he attempted to operate the ele vator to the second floor. It is thought that he suffered an attack Immediate ly after starting the car A part of bis bdy projecting through the doorway caught against the wall He was pulled partly out of the car and literally ground between the side of the shaft and the floor edge of the car until the elevator stopped short of the third floor, stalled by the body. r He was dead when taken out. jH It is not thought that the man could f 'AtV have experienced any pain, as death K ''.M; probably came while he was uncon- I clous from the seizure which caused ) .. the accident. f Little is known of McEllroy. When H s he entered tho hospital June 27. 1912, he said that he had a brother living H I in Denver, but would not give his name or address. He said that ho ' V came here from lows, but refused to lH tell anything about his relatives, ei- f H plaining that he was not on good terms with them. The body was rs- I moved to the undertaking parlors of 1 S. D Evans oc Co., to be prepared for i H burial- I - - l |