Statewide County WA Archives Obituaries.....Horton, Darius December 3, 1893
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Oregonian December 4,1893
Crushed By An Elevator
Darius Horton Instantly Killed In A Seattle Building
Seattle, Wash., Dec 3-About noon today Darius Horton, a cousin of Dexter
Horton, owner of the great New York building, was killed by the elevator cage
descending upon him as he sat in the well oiling the machinery. He had relieved
the elevator boy during lunch hour and stopped the cage a few feet from the
floor in order to go beneath. The cage was either inaccurately checked or
Horton released it in an attempt to raise it from below, and it descended upon
head, crushing it between the shoulders killing him instantly. He was not
discovered till the boy, on returning, saw a hand and arm sticking up by the
door. The man's wife and daughter were in the building and were agonized
spectators of the efforts to get the crushed, bruised and bleeding mass from
the well. Horton was a cousin of Dexter and Julius Horton,wealthy pioneers, and 
a half cousin of Cornoer Horton, whose painful duty it became to investigate
the cause of his death.

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