COLLAPSE OF A WALL
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE KILLED TRAGEDY AT WARSAW WARSAW, Nov. 13. The fermentation of barley stored in a granary attached to a brewery caused a. wall to collapse, burying the neighbouring tenement in which 31 people were sleeping. Eighteen were killed, mostly by being suffocated under tons of grain. All of the others were injured. The director of the brewery has been arrested on the ground that the quantity of grain stored violated the building ordinance.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 270, 15 November 1932, Page 7
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78COLLAPSE OF A WALL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 270, 15 November 1932, Page 7
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