GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES
AT FOOTBALL MATCH 120 PEOPLE INJURED ' (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright) MILAN, 15tif June. A total of 120 spectators were injured, •20 seriously, when a. grandstand collapsed during a football match when 20,000 were present. The accident occurred when scores of aeroplanes returning from mass aerial manoeuvres, passed overhead. The spectators jumped up and waved their hands, greeting the 'planes with the result that the stand collapsed owing to the undue pressure.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 17 June 1930, Page 5
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