GRISLY ROAD SIGHT.
COLLAPSE OF GRAVEYARD. LONDON, January 9. A score of coffins ancl tombstones tser© flung to the roadway when the boundary wall of the graveyard and the lower of the Catholic Church at Londonderry suddenly collapsed dislodging about 100 tons of earth. A passer-by was injured by a piece of flying tombstone. Human skulls and bones were scattered in indescribable confusion. Crowds stood bareheaded while the remains were s«tgered SSt which is 200 years old.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 7
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