The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-28
OGDEN ATTORNEY
LOSES HIS LIFE
Elijah Farr Meets Horrible
Death in an Elevator
Shaft.
CAUGHT BETWEEN CAGE
AND FLOOR OF BASEMENT
Neck Broken, Death Instantane-
GUS. Said to Be Due to Own
CarelesSnesS.
Special TO Tho Tribune.

Special TO Tho Tribune.
OGDEN. May 27.-Elijah Farr, ono OF
tho bright young attorneys OF Ogden.
met a horrible death in tho elevator of
tho First National bank building at 2:10
this afternoon. So far as can be learned,
the deplorable accident was due 10 his
own carelessness and to the fact that he
had undertaken to climb Into the cle-
vator from the basement, and when he
attempted to crawl out he grabbed the
rope that raises the cage and was caught
between tho floor OF the cage and tho
roof OF tho basement. His neck was
broken and he hung until the cage was
lowered. the latter operation being per-
formed some twenty minutes later.
How Accident Occurred.
Mr.. Farr was accompanied by William
Mcpherson. Farr had been occupying
rooms in the First National bank build
ing where he maintained his Office He
is said TO have been in the habit OF
leaving the key In the elevator. The ele-
vator stops running on Sundays after L
o'clock The attorney this AFTERNOON
Pherson. went into the basement under
the elevator shaft. There, with the as
sistance of Mcpherson. he climbed into
six feet above the floor OF the basement
and about two feet below the ceiling of
tho basement leaving an opening OF
OF the cage. secured the key and passed
1t out to Mcpherson.
Caught by the Cage.
He then tried to get out and down and
had Mcpherson assisting him, when he
grabbed the rope that starts the elevator
upward The cage ascended and his head
was caught between the floor OF the cage
and the roof edge OF the basement floor,
The force was sufficient 10 break his
neck and tho body hung SUSPENDED until
help was secured and 1t was released.
Body Is Removed.
It was at once removed TO the under
taking establishment OF Darkln & Son,
but not until Sheriff Sebring had seen II
and had given orders for Its disposition.
Tho Sheriff also very promptly imPan,
elled jury, and an INQUEST wifi be held
at an early hour tomorrow. as 1t Is the
purpose to remove the remains TO his
late home, The jury. is composed OF
Youngest Son of Lorin Farr.
Elijah Farr was the youngest son of
aged Lorin Farr and OF Nicotine Farr.
and was born on December Is. 1861. In
the same house where his body will be
taken tomorrow for the last sad rtes:
lie is survived by seventeen brothers and
twelve sisters. the Farr family being one
of the largest In the church. and by MS
aged father Lorin Farr, who will be, SO
next July II he survives, and by his
mothes
Was Somewhat Eccentric.
Elijah Farr was a capable but slightly
eccentric man. In his youth and during
his young manhood he showed at times
brilliant ability. He was a graduate OF
the law school at Ann Arbor in the class
of 1870. when he was % years of age. and
was third In his class. He was unmar-
ried and leaves only his parents and his
brothers and sisters to mourn him.
Date for Funeral Not Set
The funeral viii be announced later,
but the body will be taken 10 his mother S
home as soon as the inquest Is completed