Transport: One in 196,000,000

On the 14th floor of Manhattan's Wurlitzer Building one evening last week 15 men and women stepped out of a night school, started down in an elevator. As the car passed the twelfth floor, it picked up abnormal speed. The operator tried to check it with the control lever, failed. Instants later the car smashed into the spring buffers at the bottom of the pit, bounced up again, settled for good with its floor split, its walls and mechanism utterly demolished. Jounced into a screaming jumble on the floor were the passengers,...