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Show mm cn i IN ELEVATOR PIT SALT LAKE, Nov. 20. Crusfied and mangled almost beyond recognition, Mrs. Lillian C. Walker, wife of Em-mett Em-mett Walker, a bellboy at the Wilson hotel, was Instantly killed at 12:30 j this morning in the elevator shaft ati ! the hotel when the elevator descend-! ! ed upop her. Mrs. Walker dropped some silver : coins in the shaft and, while her husband hus-band was busy about the hotel, went j to the engineer's room for a screwdriver screw-driver to sort out some of the papers ! and debris in the elevator pit in an at-I at-I tempt to recover her money. Not suc-j suc-j ceeding in locating the mdney In that way, she asked the engineer to leave ' the elevator stationary for a few minutes min-utes while she entered the pit. Her husband meanwhile entered the elevator, ele-vator, without knowing his wife was in the pit, and. after taking House ; Officer C. E. Stains to the third floor, brought the elevator to the main floor. The freight carriage being one floor lower than the passenger car, struck Mrs. Walker, crushing her against the floor of the pit. She uttered one agonizing ag-onizing scream as she was hurled to the ground and killed. The engineer, J. F. Slattler, cried frantically to stop the elevator but his voice was unheard. |