COLLAPSE Or A BUILDING.
TWO MEN KILLED. OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. United Press Association —Copyright MELBOURNE, April 14. During a heavy squall, the large twostoried frame of a building in course <4 construction. for the Oriental Timbc-i Company, Geelong, collapsed. Fourteen out of thirty men toppled over with the building. The majority of those working oil the roof were injured. Two men, named Gleason and Nicholson, succumbed from injuries received. Ten other men were taken to the hospital, three, of them being in a-serious condition. Just prior to the collapse the. foreman decided that it was too dangerous to continue work owing to the high wind, and he ordered the men to cease. Tliev were engaged in making everything secure when the crash came. A number of men on the ground floor had a miraculous escape, ihe toppling structure was blown right over them without injuring them. There was much difficulty, in rescuing Hie injured, who were. jambed among tho debris.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2476, 15 April 1909, Page 5
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160COLLAPSE Or A BUILDING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2476, 15 April 1909, Page 5
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