BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Twenty Workmen Killed At
Vincennes.
BUILDER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
(United Service.)
PARIS, October 19.
Twenty workmen were killed in the collapse of a - seven-storey apartment building which was being erected in the Rue Jarry at Vincennes.
Eye-witnesses say the building seemed to split in two and fall asunder. The builder had taken np his residence in the completed section, but was absent at the time of the accident. On returning he was overcome by the scene of ruin, and attempted to blow out his brains.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 9
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