The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-17
Fatal. ACCIDENT DUE TO FAIL
URE OF HATCHWAY /APPARA-
TUs TO WORK..
LIZZIE LEFEByRE KILLED.
AND HER COUSIN, CHARLES
RAVEN, BADLY INJURED In AN
ELEVATOR
AT TowLE's SYRUP wARERooMs.
into the Accident Fully Today
story Confusing.

Elizabeth Lefebvore. Young girl
seventeen years of age, in the employ
OF the Towle Syrup company. was in
stantly killed in an elevator accident
at the ware rooms of the Towle Syrup
company, 1S6-1SS East Fifth street.
shortly after o'clock yesterday after
noon. Death resulted from a broken
neck sustained from being caught be-
tween the elevator and one of the walls
OF the shaft. Charles Raven. a cousin
or the dead girl was also injured in
| an endeayor to save her life. falling a
distance of twelve feet to the bottom
OF the shaft where his left arm was
eroken above the wrist. Deputy
Coroner Mcnamara viewed the re-
mains of the young woman and or
oered them taken to the undertaking
rooms of Mccarthy & Donnelly. where
an autopsy will be held at 10 o'clock
this morning.
AS TO the details of the accident little
OF accuracy is yet known Mr.. Raven
was TOO much overcome by the sudden
oeatn OF his cousin and his own in
Jur1es to give lucid account of what
occurred yesterday, though his story
In general is as follows:
Both he and his cousin were emnloved
/ on the third floor of the building where
a number of girls are engaged in nut
ing up packages of buckWheat flour
MI. Raven is in charge of this work
ana MS cousin was one of those EN-
gagged In packing the flour. Shortly be-
Icre o'clock he loaded several boxes
On the elevator and started down to
the nrst floor. Miss Lefebvre had oc-
caslon TO visit the lower floor and was
On the elevator with him. The de-
/ scent was made in safety but on the
II eturn one of the trap doors of the
elevator shaft failed to omen as the
elevator pressed against it and the car
| came to stop. Raven, it seems. took
some sort OF a lever and ATTEMPTED I'd
pry up the door. In the meantime his
cousin was sitting on an empty box,
and when the elevator suddenly start
ed, with the flying open of the resist
ing door. she was thrown headlong
INTO an opening in the brick wall of
the shaft
Young Raven saw his cousins danger
and attempted to draw her from her.
perilous position. The elevator was as
cendlng during this time, and in some
way Raven fell from the car to the
| basement. leaving the girl partly in the
hole in the shaft and partly an the
elevator. The elevator continued on its
! way TO the top of the building, probably
breaking the girls neck as the edge
passed the top of the hole in the shaft
into which portion of her body was
extending. When the occupants of the
building realized that an accident had
occurred they rushed to the top floor.
but were Mortified to find their Young
FELLOW employe breathing her last Drs
Daring and Johnson were summoned
but when DR.. Darling, the first to ar
rive, reached the girl she was already
| dead Mr.. Ravens injuries were then
attended to and he was sent to his
i home in a carriage
Owing to the likeness Of the hour
and the excitement prevailing about
the place. Deputy Coroner Mcnamara
could not make tile most satisfactory
! Inquiries into the accident yesterday
but thorough Investigation will be
made today. 1t is not thought that
the accident resulted from careiessness
on neglect on the part OF any ere. but
II sucn was the case the responsibility
viii be placed at the inquiry today.
Miss LefebvTe has been nmpIoye1
at diffe rent times by the Towia Syrup
company for the past two years. and
her death is mourned by both employ
I trs and those with whom she worked
Until coming to ST. Paul she lived
with Ter parents ut Mankato, but has
recently found a Rome with her mar
ried sister, Mrs. Mary Styles, 80 Col
crado street, West st. Paul. The par
ents OF the dead girl were notified Of
the accident last evening.