Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-18
FELL MANY FEET.
Miss George Roby's Horrible
Fate in a Hotel.
SAD END OF A GIRLIsH FRoLIo

me Makes Misstep Into An Elevator nj
the kimbhll House, is Precipitated
Fourteen Feet and Carried Between tho
oaoie and wheel-Crushed TO Death.
a sad termination came to a Girl
lsh frolic at the Kimball house at
Davenport Saturday night. At 9:l2
p. m. three young ladies of Musca-
tine boarded the train at that place
bound for Davenport to spend Sun
day in the three cities. ACCORDING TO
the statement of one OF the party.
They were landed in Davenport at
1925 and entered the KimbalI house
and registered as Misses Georgia
Lloyd, Glennie Logged and Pearl
Logged, Ot-umwa. The divergence
in the spelling of the names is suffi-
cient to indicate the fact that the
girls intended to have their GOOD
time on the quiet, There is nothing
to show. however, that they medi-
tated anything more than a Sunday
outing. Their real names were
Georgia and Elsie Roby. sisters. and
Maud Bear.
Met FrightfuI Fate.
The Democrat tells of the terrible
fall that awaited one of the party:
a bell boy was called to show the
| girls to room 80. on the fourth floor.
| He accom- panied them to the en-
trance to the elevator shaft on the
office floor, and rang for the car.
which was in the upper part of the
building. One or two other parties
besides the girls were waiting for
the elevator, and it seems some one
remarked There it comes" as the
elevator started to descend. Geor-
gle Roby, who was standing nearest
the door to the shaft with her back
toward it, evidently understood chat
the elevator was down, and turned.
pushed open the door and stepped
in. \ cry arose from those who
were near her as it was seen that she
had stepped of into space L: was re-
sPondcd To by 4 groam from the bot
tom of the dark hole and then all
was still.
Ground to Death
| In answer 20 the shouts the eleva-
tor boy stopped the car about mid
way in its descent. Lights were
hastily procured. and the shaft was
entered OF the floor below. were the
unfortunate girl was discovered. al
! ready deal. She had fallen between
the cable and the large revolving
wheel around which it moved. and
was carried under the wheel in that
manner. The stopping of the eleva-
tor had lett her cntangled so that
several m II Jtcs were required to get
the body rec.
Drs. Hall. +. :. Bowman and Craw-
ford were summoned. and an eX-
| animation showed a streak Of red cN-
tending diagonoiiy acros, the front
! OF the 10, from one shoulder to the
lower line of the waist on the oppo-
site side. while corresponding to this
! on the back was the double line of
the grooTrd wheel. each tange lcav-
ING its mark without breaking the
skin. Between cable and wheel the
! poor girl had been crushed. and her
neck was dislocated. She had died
almost inStantaneously and without
suffering, the light of consciousness
having gone out with the first con-
tact with the cable and wheel. The
| fall was bout II feet.
Tender hands carried the body to
the room which had been assigned
to the cir, and her companions be-
fore the fatal accident. The latter
naturally were distracted by the ter
rible event. the sister being nearly
crazed wi grief. The mother of
the dead girl was telegraphed to-.
! She lives ut Muscatine with 4 second
husband, named Schamburger. her
former husband. the father of the
dead girl. being deceased. just how
the girl managed to open the door
| of the elevator shaft i hard to deter
mine.