HUNDREDS BURIED
WHEN CHURCH FLOOR COLLAPSES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right) LONDON, November 21. The “Chronicle’s” correspondent at Warsaw says that while a congregation of one thousand was attending mass in the church of the Holy Cross, a wedding service was being celebrated in the adjoining chapel, ihe lloor col- ( lapsed, and the bride and bridegroom, the priest, and hundreds of worshippers were buiicd in the debris. I lie choir 1 was thrown to the bottom of the thousand year old cellars beneath the church. Many, casualties are feaied.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1932, Page 6
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