, 1879-05-31
ELEVATOR DISASTER.


-Four Women HHuIY Injured IN NOW Iofk
igatal.
ITt,o Tork sun. Ndpce.
At Q o'clock every evening bell Is RING in
tho st.. Omer Hotel, on Sixth avenue, uc,r
Twcntr-thr1i street, to call tho employees to
euppcr. When this bell was rung on Monday
evening, four of the women who work In tho
hotel wero In tho sixth story, at tho top Of the
house. Tlcir sleeptng-rooms are there. These
women were Katy Callaghnn and Nellie Brown,
chamhes,na!ds; and Anna Fogorty and Mary
Iane Mcutnnts, scrub wotnen They are all
Young women, aud were Ia mood Tint led
them 10 run the risk Of ride 1own-stafrs IN tho
slender trunk elevator rather than walk down
The six flights OF stairs. They Ind nll been pre-
yiously forbidden to ride on tho elevator; but Its
location iu tho rcar Of the house made II likely
TINT their disobcdtento wonld not bo known.
Tile elevator Is merely a dummy, running. up
ind down MI ordinary ho!etwa5, nnl rlgged a.
nre tic ho!sts IN nearly alt dowft-town store.
houses, The saft through wblch 1t PASSES l.
alld half deep, aud five fcet'broa1.
The dummy ia nude to d. tlis shaft and Is
about the blight of MAN. It Is simply three.
sided wooden box, With floor md covered
main ropa Is lasicl 10 lts root and passos over
harrel At tho top Of tllo abatt. 4 wotg gLt
buiunces the dummy, md hoist ropes hang In
side tho shaft. Catharlno Callnghan, Nr|te
Brown, Mary .Jane alcdlnnts, aul Annie
Foaarty squeezed Into tho dummy, a,i1 Nelllu
brown engineered it down by pulling thu hp!st
rope. She must hare pulled The check rops at
the tittM. stoty lanatnE; for hs n. anmt.,y - was
snapped With Il reuort lihe d ptstul, mil the
dummy, with It's heavy loud, shot lawn the
shut with wnlrr tint did not secn, to occupy
| u seconds time. Ihc cocks rushed to, tile
| kttcncn door, which Ia opposite she mouth Of
the shaft In the basement, att wcre Just IN ttmc
| to SEQ the dummy strike tho 8tono floor with q
no!se like tic stroko Vt II trip.hanmer. Katy
CaIaghqn al,1 Annio FoEuyiy wera thrown out
| on tic!r faccs, md In auch manner that when
| tho dummy rebounlcd their legs fell under 1t.
Tic .rent wooden boz bounded ten feet into
the sir, then tile ropo snapped, nt1 tho boz fell
nEatn vita heaSy noise, this time upon the
| lhnbs Of the pr6strate wome.. Noltta brown
uni Mary Janc McGtnns wgrc thrown out upon
| the bodies OF their mangiea companions whcu
the dummy fell the SECOND time.
The proorlctor, Mr. CARPENTER, heard tho
| toned downstairs, lie ordered buds brought
| down, ard the women were laid upon them, two
Of them In the laundry and two Of them In thy
servants dnins..roon'. Mrs. Carpenter did
| cn, and er hlsbANd run to tic New York 1los.
| pltal and uotllcd tho SURGEON Of what had oc-
cured. ln ten mtnutes Or. knanp, who was Ii
cla1eu Of the huspltas, reached liio hotol with
Limbs were put IN splnts, aiA TIC other injuries
wcrp Intended to before tho patlents were re.
moyc1 to the hospital. katy CallaGhan wns
hurt most seriously. She suffered q COMPOUND
10 seriously injured, md sle is not cxpectcd
to live 6l,o was q fAit4tul servant, and by
| llcr industry and prudence Ind tccomo tic
owner OF u house anil lot. Mary Jane Nicfiinn!a
fas no honeB fractured, but suffers from n ysrs
bad spinal Injury. Stle may recover. Sto had
bcen ut work In thu Ut. Qmer lotel ten days
| only, put Was well Eecosn,nvnded and was 10
lfevctl to ba faithful md Industrious. llci
father Ia the gatckocpos at Calvary Ccmetury,
Annie Fogarty was isic other woman upor
both her ioet are fractured, and she has pain
ful scalp wound. She tnay rccuVcr. Her peoplt
nro saf,l TO be IN comfortable circumstances
Her byothrr-!B-nw has milk Htore Just above
thu hutel, In Sixth aycnuc. Nellie Bruwn's lef'
leg IL Fractured her scalp Is torn, md her Aandl
IDENTIFY held In nu endcnvor'to stop thu downfall
Ut The elevator. Nlll[o Brown Ia aud to be
very bright, Intelligent girl, and 10 nlao Of rc
speetauIe DrgD. 4 noar relative Of hers is sall
Tho women are very badly bruised about tfr
bodtes unl their condition Is such that 10 Olls
Ia nll0Wtsl to sec tllGm, -.
| One OF tllcTo women wAs caught rii1tng nn TIL
elevator about u week nyu. She had employed
a fireman iron, tic Kitchen to Int thu dummy
proprietor saw her n1tl made her yet out Mt til,
l1rst lnndlng. lie had oitnn befoFn TINT ostlerct
That no Que bo permitted to rtle in the box
Tho elevator ~ intended to carry only a weigh
OF 200 pounds, which Il what the largest trlnk
usuullY weigh wa,en full ot cloth,lig By II
fall tho elevator box was utturlT shattered
! The flooring WnA br0kGn Out, tho roof PARTED II
tho middle, Mud tho heavy wire fralR Which li
boz depended was broken closo to tl.a tap Q
tho box. II was probably worn consacratl
before 1t was subjected to thu struin of IL
weight Ut tho four women Wlo mat With tn
nc.i1unt ou MonanY.