COLLAPSE OF FLOOR
TRAGEDY AT A SCHOOL. OVER 100 INJURED. SEVERAL FATALITIES FEARED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Deo. 13. While a performer was singing “ The Minstrel Boy,” at a school concert, the first floor of St. Clement’s School, Liverpool, collapsed under the weight of 500 people, including children, who fell in a heap on the floor 40ft. below. Chairs and benches went through the floor like an avalanche, causing panic. Some who escaped spread the alarm, and police and ambulances rushed to the scene. Thirty-six were taken to* hospital and it is feared that several will die.
Over 100 were medically treated and sent home.
When the floor ’collapsed, the gaslighted building was plunged into darkness and intensified the horror. Explosions \Vere feared, and gas company officials rushed to the scene to cut, off the supply. Children, women and men struggled in a heap under,the floor. Some were crushed by desks falling on top of them.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19450, 14 December 1934, Page 8
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