Mrs. Matkin Trapped in the Elevator Shaft

ID: 2550 ~ Source: Turner, Thomas E. Sr., interviewed by Virginia Collins, March 25, 1981, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Thomas Turner Sr. describes the days-long effort to remove R. T. Dennis employee Mrs. Matkin, alive and conscious, from the wreckage of the elevator shaft.

This file appears in: R. T. Dennis and Co., Inc.

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