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SERIOUS LIFT ACCIDENT.
A LADY INJURED.
Melbourne, May 29.
On Friday evening Madame De Alba,
wife of Signor Tomasso De Alba, met
with a serious accident at Nicholson
Chambers, Collins-street. She entered a
lift to ascend to an upper floor, and when
half-way up the lift stuck and refused to
move. A ladder was procured, and
Signor De Alba emerged for the purpose
of conducting his wife down the steps.
As she put her head out the lift suddenly
ascended, crushing her head between the
floor of the lift and ceiling. She sustained
several scalp wounds, and her jaws were
badly fractured, her teeth being knocked
out. Dr. O'Hara set all the bones. She
is not yet out of danger.
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