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Show KILLED IN ELEVATOR Car Snapped Its Cables I and Dropped Eight Stories i New York, Dec. 31. An nnldontl-flediuan nnldontl-flediuan was instantly killed and another an-other fatally injured shortly before midnight last night when an elevator car in an apnjrtment house on West 112th street, in which both men were i riding ascended rapidly to the top of the shaft snapped its cables and dropped eight stories into tho cellar. cel-lar. N The noise made by the car as it struck the cement foundation of the shaft shook tho building and man of tho tenants rushed into tho street, fearing that tho building had col-laped. col-laped. A general stampede was averted by the lSyear-old girl telephone tele-phone operator, who remained at her seat at the switchboard In the hallway, hall-way, only a few feet from the elevator ele-vator shaft, until she had called up every apartment in the building and assured the tenants that there was no danger As nearly as the police have been able to learn, the car was In charge of an inexperienced operator, who ran it upward at top speed so that it crashed into the steel support at the top of the shaft, smashing some of the mechanism so that It dropped downward unsupported. The police dug the operator and his companion out of the wreckage in the basemeut. Thc operator was dead and his companion's com-panion's back was broken and his , skull fractured. I |