FEARFUL LIFT ACCIDENT.
WOMAN CRUSHED TO DEATH. Mrs Annie Morris (37), widow, of Coventry Street, South Melbourne, wa,. crushed to death by a lift at the Grand Central Hotel, Bourke Street, on Saturday afternoon (12th inst.) Deceased had stepped half-way out of the lift at the first floor, when it descended, and she became sandwiched between the top of the lift entrance and the floor. Her head, arms, and one leg were free, but the rest of her body remained inside the lift, which gradually forced her shoulders down to the floor. The obstruction threw the lift out of order, and it could not be raised. When men cut away the top of the lift with tomahawks the woman was dead. Another woman, a man, and the liftman wore in the lift at the time.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1914, Page 7
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135FEARFUL LIFT ACCIDENT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1914, Page 7
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