The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-23
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT.
Tho Nightwatchman at tho McLuro
House Fatally Crushed,
BEING CAUGHT IN THE ELEVATOR.
Ills Skull Crushed and his Head Torn
in SIcknninS Nianncr...,rl,c Acct.
dent not Entirely Understood, but
no Blame Attaches TO AnyDody.

Last night n few minutes after 10
O'Clock tho Mcclure house was The
srono Of terrible accident, by which
Levi II. Hutton, the night Waterman,
losthis lie,
Afcw inmates before the accident oc.
cured luton was sitting in the office
cia.hug with Mr.. Ohio lIeiskell, who
has charge Of the cigar stand, when he
received q call from the office TO 60 up
tothc second floor, 10 room lO7, and
bring downs trunk ut once, to so on
tlol0:3O train.
luton started OF in hurry, reply
mg that hcwould be back in 4 few min.
u!cs and started up on tho elevator.
Getting the trunk, he backed in upon
tic elevator, in tho baggage compart-
mrut iu.thG lower part, {!
Turner Monroe, the co!orCd elevator
boy in charge, called ont 10 him in tho
ca lomary way, "All right?' and Hut
!on answered, "Ycs, 20 ahead"
The boy tartcd the elevator down,
when no Iclt Il slight jar, and called
n.J.U, and receiving 10 answer, stopped
aud started 10 screamingrl
lHis rapidly brought q number OF
rcopln TO the scene, and there horriiy-
IN scene met their gaze;
Lying between the floor OF tho upper
compartment OF the elevator, and tho
sill Of the window on thGcast side, was
the body OF the niehtwatchman with
tie lett side OF his skull! crushed in and
streams OF blood pouring over him.
Several OF the more scli-possessod
spectators picked up the man, who was
still gUsDing and breathing, and carried
lin into the adjoining room, number
III, where physicians We're summoned.
Doctors Dickey and Reed; responded
ut once, but pronounced lin beyond
all hope, us there was q compound
fracture OF the skull on the left side, cX-
tending from n point just above the left
eye to the base Of the brain, back OF the
lett ear, the entire side above the car
being crushed in. u.s.
Hutton came here about one year ago
from Ulivct, Ohio, near GAINESVILLE, to
accept the position OF night Waterman,
and had made many friends by, his
quiet, UnasSuming manner and pleasant
disposition TO all who were associated
with him. lie was twenty-five years
old, and Il general favorite about the
hotel
Turner Monroe, the coIored boy in
charge OF the elevator, was entirely
blamclcss, as he has had several years
experience in that capacity and was
considered one OF the most careful bows
on.watch. His screams and paroxysm
Of grici over the sad affair were very
pitllul. lie and the night watChmun
were very warm friends and thrown to-
gcthcr most Of their time while on
duty. -.
Mcssrs. Stamm and Mcclure, who de-
plorc the accident greatly, did every
thing in their power TO prevent acct
dents, and always cautioned employees
TO be always on the watch.
The proprictors telegraphcd ITutton's
parents last night about the sad affair.
1t is suspected that after getting into
the elevator Hutton either tainted, or
lost his balance through the trunk slip
ping, and in trying to steady it, fell so
that the descending elevator caught his
head between the top OF the elevator
door AND the sill OF the window.
There was IN affecting scene in the
room where he lay breathing his last
when Rev. DR.. Cook offered an appro-
pirate prayer.
Hutton died at eighteen minutes after
u. He never rallied from the time he
was injured until lie ceased to breathe,
and he did not know what hit him.