SHOCKING- ACCIDENT AT PARIS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1308, 29 May 1878, Page 3

SHOCKING- ACCIDENT AT PARIS.

Referring to the accident to the lift at the Grand Hotel, Paris, by which Baroness Schackandtwo servants were, killed, the correspondent of the “Daily News” says; — The Baroness Schack, one of the victims of the appalling accident to the Grand Hotel lift, was not a Russian but a German, a native of Mecklenburg. Prince Hohenlohe called to-day on her bereaved husband. She was about to leave an apartment on the second floor, and stepped into the lift, while her husband, who had packages in his hand, preferred to walk down stairs. Two servants appointed to take care of the lifts were with her. Owing to some lamentable defect in the machinery, the lift, which should have gently descended, went up like a skyrocket to the roof of the fifth floor, and there received such a shock that the chains attaching the weights were broken. It then came down from a great height, with the full force of the gravity of a ponderous mass. The noise alarmed all the inmates of the hotel. Baron Schack greatly injured his hands in precipitately opening the door. His wife and the two servants were quite dead—killed in less than half a minute. But they had no symptoms of external injury, A slight flow of blood from the nose -was the only palpable evidence. M. Fridhal, the medical man, certified the death to be from cerebral congestion, caused by the rapid passage through the air. This reminds me of the story that a man throwing himself off the Monument was dead before touching the ground.