FRANK HAMMOND ESCAPED INJURY, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK

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SOURCE: BUFFALO EVENING NEWS - VOL.XXXIV-NO.145 -dated September 27,1897 
WHAT IS HE MADE OF? 
Elevator and 1000 Pounds Of Ice Fell on Hammond Without Seriously Injuring Him 

Frank Hammond, an employe of the Lake Shore Ice Company, had a remarkable escape from instant
death or terrible injury last Friday afternoon. He had loaded an elevator in the Saturn Club
Building with 1000 pounds of ice. As the elevator started to ascend he stepped into the shaft
and watched it move up. It had proceeded about 18 feet when one of the cables snapped. Hammond
heard the noise, but was unable to jump out of the shaft before the elevator with its load of
ice came crashing down on him. He was pinned to the floor. Luckily, his head in some manner was
not struck. It took 20 minutes to extricate him from his painful position. The Homeopathic
ambulance conveyed him to the hospital, where, much to the surprise of his friends and doctors,
not a broken bone was found in his body. But his bruises and contusions were serious enough to
keep him confined to the hospital for two or three weeks.