WAREHOUSE COLLAPSES

Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 9

WAREHOUSE COLLAPSES

TRAGEDY IN HULL WORKMEN BURIED IN RUINS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 18. (Received January 19, at 12.20 p.m.) liagged unconscious from the ruins, ninO workmen were sent to hospital injured, five more are believed to be dead, and one is missing as the result of the collapse of a six-story warehouse occupied by the Gilyoot . Company, Wharfside, Hull, and containing 100 tons of loose wheat. The gale apparently blew in the entire side of the building, which collapsed with a thunderous roar, bringing down the entire structure like a giant house of cards. Amid a burst of black dust resembling an explosion, thousands of tons of masonry avalanched into a heap 50 feet high, trapping those unable to escape and stampeding the others. The collapse occurred during a busy morning. Doctors were swiftly on the scene and amputated the leg of a workman who was entrapped by a fallen beam, despite the fact that they were threatened by a huge overhanging section of a wall attached to a neighbouring warehouse. Engineers, 1 firemen, warehouse workers, also roadmakers, assembled by police despatch riders, feverishly searched the ruins, breaking up and removing large blocks of masonry embedded in tons’ of wheat, which was moving like quicksand and hampered the efforts to rescue those entombed.