WAREHOUSE LIFT FALLS FROM THIRD FLOOR

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 5

WAREHOUSE LIFT FALLS FROM THIRD FLOOR

FOUR PEOPLE NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH

ALL TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ELDERLY MAN AND THREE EiIRLS INJURED ROPE DID NOT BREAK. Press A association —Copyright AUCKLAND, This Day. The lift at the warehouse of Brown, Barrett Ltd., in Customs Street, fell a height of three doors this morning. Five people wore in the lift going to tho. top floor. A lad named DaJmain got «ufc at the second floor to get his apron. Ho walked to the third floor and was horrified to see tho. lilt rushing down tho lift well. It crashed to tho basement where, tho occupants were released and all four taken to tho hospital. H. Plank, of Onehuriga, an elderly man, had hotli ankles broken and his back injured.

Of the three girls in the lift, Mis* D. Soofct and Miss AV. Keller, bote had thoir right ankles broken. Miss Geddes sustained ai sprained ankle. An inspection of the lift showed that the rope had not broken but apparently the pin holding the vertical Tack against the cogwheel had broken or come out, with the result that the drum upon which the wire rope is wound revolved at a great pace.