COLLAPSE OF FLOOR.
AUCTION SALE SENSATION. Sixty people were prosent at an auction sale of china in a Glasgow shop recently when the floor collapsed and 30 of them were thrown into tho basement. Ten were taken to tho infirmary and three women were dotuinod. “I was thrown down about 15 foot,” said Mrs Morgan, one of tho women who escaped injury. “Fortunatoly tho auctioneer snatched my. two babies from me, or they must havo boon killed.” Mr Cullen, who wns passing at tho time, said: “I heard a terrific crash and piercing screams, I looked' into the shop, nnd was amazed to too only a gaping hole, ’at tho bottom of which was a struggling mass of humanity. Women and children were hooped up in a seemingly inoxtricahle jumble. Their cries were heart-rending, and over and above nil oould bo heard the screams of one little child calling for its mother.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 11
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152COLLAPSE OF FLOOR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 11
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