BALCONY COLLAPSE.
TERRIBLE PANIC. MANY PEOPLE SERIOUSLY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Aug. 8. liie presentation of the polo carnival Prizes was taking place at Guerindo to-night.
About 150 leading ladies and gentlemen of the district wore gathered on tho balcony of tho Imperial Hotel. The balcony collapsed and fell on tho crowd gathered below. ( There was a terrible panic. Many people were seriously injured, but so far as is at present known no one was killed.
Only meagre details of fclio sensational affair are to hand.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 182, 9 August 1901, Page 2
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87BALCONY COLLAPSE. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 182, 9 August 1901, Page 2
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