WARNING GIVEN IN TIME
(British Official Wireless.)
BUGBY, Bth August. The offices of the Commercial Union Insurance Company, near the Eoyal Exchange, in Cornhill, London, partially collapsed at midnight on Saturday into a deep excavation adjoining, made for new bank premises. Workmen engagod on this excavation saw cracks developing in tho wall and warned the authorities, who cleared the adjacent buildings of its occupants and fenced off the area some hours before the actual collapse. About a third of the sis-storied building, comprising eighteen rooms, foil, but owing to the precautions taken there were no casualties and no outbreaks of fire occurred. A largo force of firemen and police immediately began an examination of adjacent buildings and the remainder of tho Commercial Union offices, and salvage work is continuing. All Cornhill traffic has been diverted.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 35, 10 August 1927, Page 9
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135WARNING GIVEN IN TIME Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 35, 10 August 1927, Page 9
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