ANOTHER CRASH.
BUILDING GOES OVER. MANY NARROW ESCAPES. Dy Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. & N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 25. 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 25. Another building collapsed in the heart of the city. There were no casuThc building was a three-story brick structure occupied by A. H. Enticott And t o. in Little Bourke Street. Twenty persons were employed there. The first sign of collapse was when several windows fell out of their framework. Then the building commenced to sway. All the occupants made a dash for safety. Ton seconds later, a side wall subsided on to a varant allotment, which is being excavated for a new building, i he floors, one after another, fell in. Several of a large crowd of onlookers were struck by flying bricks, and workmen on the vacant land had narrow escapes as they stripped to remove horses when warning was given.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17573, 25 June 1925, Page 1
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