APARTMENT HOUSE COLLAPSES
16 KILLED; A SCORE INJURED JUMBLE OF TIMBERS, BRICKS AND MORTAR (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 20th June. One of the most serious construction accidents in recent years occurred today, five workmen being killed and a score injured when a nearly completed six-storey apartment house at the Bronx collapsed. It required several hours’ work to remove the bodies and release some of the injured. The collapse was apparently caused by plumbers boring-jthrough a column for piping. The’building was designed to house sixty families. The collapse of the Bronx apartment building yesterday developed into a major disaster to-day as wrecking crews found eleven additional bodies, making the death roll sixteen. At least one workman is still reported missing, and it is feared he is dead. The jumble of timbers, bricks and mortar was so deep that it required 24 hours of frantic work to find the bodies, and then the bottom of the pile had not yet been reached.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 5
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