Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-23
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Pretty Hattie Cullatin took an older from 3 customer in T. ID. Khodn's res- taurant on Wisconsin. street Friday af- ternoon and went tripping across the floor to the dumb waiter, where she proceeded to send 1t In rythmie cadences to the cook up aloft.
 Then there came q sound of clash ing steel, and the next instant q stream of blood was seen to issue from the neck of the girl, while knives, great sharp pointed carvers, and butcher knives were seen sticking up in the floor around about her.
 When the waiting customers recov- cred from their fright, they went to her aid. Her narrow escape from in- stant death made them blanch. It seems that as she put her head in to the dumb waiter to give the order to the cook, basket containing lot of carving knives, which had just been sharpened, was overturned and the keen bladed weapons came down the elevator shaft in shower. But one of the knives struck Miss Cullatin, strange to say, and she did not realize that anything serious had happened wound trickling down her neck and over her clothing. Dr H. D. Bradley was summoned and dressed her wound, and she was sent home where she will have to remain until the wound heals sufficiently to allow her to resume her duties. The knife that wounded Miss Cullatin struck her neck, pierced her stiff buckram collar, sheared it's way through all her cloth ing, and buried itself in the flesh. the point lodging against the collar bone.
 One of the knives from the over turned basket did not fall into the shaft but fell to the floor beside the cook. cutting through his shoe and barely missing his foot.
 Miss Cullatin is the cashier of the restaurant. In speaking of the acci- deht last evening she said
 q did not know myself what had happened." said Miss Cullatin, "and did not know at first that my neck had been cut. You see was standing at the bottom of the elevator shaft talk ing to one of the men on the upper floor. There was nothing between the floors. the elevator having been run up above the door at the top of the shaft. All the carving knives were up stairs. and were to he sent down in a minute or two. I don't know what happened on the floor above, but the first I knew there were knives falling all around me. felt something strike the side of my neck. but didn't know then that l had been cut. I was | badly scared. and when I found my neck was bleeding I was frightened | most to death. It seems that that sharp knife had come down point first and it was only my stiff collar that saved me. The knife struck that first and while it went through the collar. | there wasn't quite so much force left | to drive it into me. It went through everything. and went, point first into my neck. It struck the collar bone and stopped there, or it would have been pretty serious. Even as it was. the doctor told me that if the point had | struck half an inch lower it would have been q pretty serious cut. It proba- | bly would have hit one of those | arteries.' -s.-
 "Every one of the knives that fell | is 'sharpened every day. They are all kept just like razors, and I am for | tunate in getting out as well as l did. Only the one knife struck me, but some l of the others came pretty close. - Milwaukee Sentinel.