COLLAPSE OF TWO ROOMS IN VATICAN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 29 November 1928, Page 6

COLLAPSE OF TWO ROOMS IN VATICAN

CELLARS CARELESSLY BUiLT. EOME, Nov. 27. Fears for the stability of a whole \ying of. the* Vatican wherein the Pope has private and official apartments) was felt when the floor 'of two large rooms on the ground floor suddenly collajpsed. The roonns were formerly a par* of the quarters of the Paratin© Guard. They were fortunately momentarily unoccupied. Engineers found, the collapse was due to the failure of the vaulted oeilings "op sbn cellarsj, which had been carelessly built. They had already suffered much decay an the last three centuries. ■M large masonry pillar was recently built} in the 'dentre of the , vault, but it spyed insufficient to prevent the accident.