CHURCH FLOOR COLLAPSES
HUNDREDS HURLED INTO CELLAR. MANY CASUALTIES FEARED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 21. The Chronicle’s correspondent at Warsaw says that while a congregation of 1000 was attending Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross at Warsaw and a wedding service was being celebrated in an adjoining chapel, the floor collapsed, and the bride, bridegroom, priest and hundreds of worshippers were hurled in the debris. The choir was thrown to the bottom of 1000-year-old cellars beneath the church. Many casualties are feared.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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