COLLAPSE OF A TOWER.
♦ NUMEROUS REMARKABLE ESCAPES. United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, September 2. (' The tower, 300 feet high, of the famous Sanctuary of the Crucified, at . Boca, collapsed owing to disturbance of the foundations. A regiment of :n---fantry had quitted the basilica a few minutes before. No lives were lost, though there were numerous remarkAble escapes. The loss is estimated at '£100,000. A chapel containing a supposed miraculous image of the MaAonna is intact.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9024, 3 September 1907, Page 1
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