CHURCH TRAGEDY
COLLAPSE OF A FLOOR
HUNDREDS BURIED IN DEBRIS
LONDON. Nov. 21 The Warsaw correspondent of the News Chronicle reports that while 1000 people were attending Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross, and a wedding service was being celebrated in an adjoining chapel, the floor collapsed. The bride and bridegroom, a priest- and hundreds of worshippers were buried in the debris. The choir was thrown to the bottom of cellars 1000 years old beneath the church. There were many casualties.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 11
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83CHURCH TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 11
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