TRAGEDY IN A CHURCH
COLLAPSE OF VIOOR
HUNDREDS OF WORSHIPPERS BURIED. MANY CASUALTIES FEARED. __ (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 22, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 21. The News-Chronicle’s correspondent at Warsaw says that while a congregation of one thousand was attending niass in the Church of the Holy Cross and a wedding service was being celebrated in an adjoining chapel the floor collapsed and the bride, the bridegroom, the priest and hundreds of worshippers were buried in the debris. The choir was thrown to the bottom of 1000-year-old cellars beneath the church.
Many other casualties are feared
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 304, 22 November 1932, Page 7
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98TRAGEDY IN A CHURCH Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 304, 22 November 1932, Page 7
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