Hospital workers open time capsule

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Workers at a health care facility in Buffalo are taking a trip back in time by opening up a time capsule left behind a hundred and one years ago.

An air of excitement could be felt at Highpointe on Michigan, a Kaleida Health facility that has many former Deaconess employees. They opened a time capsule just over a century old that was just discovered on Friday during demolition of the Deaconess Center.

Employees were having a party to mark that one year ago Monday, patients were transferred to open Highpointe, and the time capsule was a nice bonus. But what was inside?

Asst. Administrator Dawn Gammack said, "Multiple newspapers from that period of time. Many of them circled with the commemoration of what was happening with the cornerstone. Some German newspapers and there are unfortunately some documents in poor condition that are damp, moist, but we're looking at restoration."

In 1911, when the cornerstone was laid, Deaconess German Hospital was the second largest hospital in the City of Buffalo.