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Show i FLOOR GIVES WAY. loaning under - the weight of nly '00,000 pounds of oats, the flj of , the oat room at the Gunni-stjlolier Gunni-stjlolier mill gave way last Friday eMng, precipitating the grain to thjloor below which is used as a stj room for flour. Lawrence H?ansen, who was working at the mjat the time, narrowly escaped bej covered in the avalanche as it ca down with a crash and without thleast warning. Lawrence had !q storing flour and had left the J o and was just on the point of retering when the floor gave way. M;ger N. L. Hermansen has been inii? at this time to estimate his lo, but. it will reach considerable, to the fact that much seed oaand barley were stored in the ba:nent, where much of the grain fr the upper floor finally landed. Noisf the machinery of the big mill wnjured and the plant was kept stily running. i |