BUILDING FALLS
ANOTHER AT MELBOURNE
NO - CASUALTIES REPORTED
BUT MANY NARROW ESCAPES
BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT
Received June 25, 11.40 a.m. MELBOURNE!, June 24. Another building collapsed, in the heart of the city, bub fortunately there were no casualties. T!he buiLdiing was a tliieenstoa-ey brick structure occupied by A. H. Enticort and Co. in Liiutie Bourke Street. Twenty persons were employed there. The fi iwt sign of the collapse was that several windows fell out of the framework. Then the building commenced to sway. All the occupants made a dash for safety. Ten seconds later the side wall subsided on to a vacant allotment, which was being excavated fur a new building. Then the floors, one after another, fell in. Several of a large crowd of onlookers were struck by flying bricks and the workmen on the vacant land had narrow escapes, as they stopped to remove their horses when the warning was given.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 June 1925, Page 5
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