PLUNGED INTO CREEK
PAVITJON CROWDED EOR BABY CONTEST. NO DEATHS BUT OVER 100 INJURED. ' ‘TJ. P.A. by Eloc. TeL Covvright.) (Received June 30, 6.30 p.m.) WILKES BAR RE (Penn.) June 29. More than one hundred were injured, some gravely, when nearly 400 men women and children were plunged more than thirty feet into the shallow waters of Hnnlock Creek at Croop’s Glen, when an old barn dance pavilion, in which a baby contest was being conducted, collapsed. The entire structure plunged from the eminence into' the cre’ek, tossing all into a. screaming writhing mass. Tho lack of deaths was most, miraculous.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12593, 1 July 1935, Page 5
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