Posted by Adrienne on Tuesday, December 03, 2013 at 11:27:19 :

The Deadly Elevator
San Francisco, April 1 – Kittie FLYNN aged 19 years, employed in packing medicine at Joy’s laboratory, fell down the elevator shaft today, sustaining injuries which caused her death.

Source: The Daily Californian (Bakersfield), April 2, 1891, Page 1