Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-05-27 | Page 3 | Priest Prays; Panic Averted

PRIEST PRAYS; PANIC AVERTED Monsigneur Iravellc of New York Keeps Cool Wlicn Platform Collapses Behind Iiim. By International News Service. NEW YORK, May C With hands raised as he blessed tho foundations of the new St. Clement's Catholic church In West Fortieth streot. Monslgncur Tm-vello, Tm-vello, vicar general of the diocese of Now York, provenlcd a. serious panic today by continuing his prayer as a platform collapsed col-lapsed bolilnd Mm, plunging fifty women and children to the ground of the basement, base-ment, fifteen feet below. Tho cries of a score of injured pinned under the debris mingled with the clamor of 3000 spectators, specta-tors, but the. priest stood immovable until un-til he had finished his blessing. His calm attitude had a quieting effect upon tho throng and gave the pollco the few moments mo-ments necessary to avert a paniu. Whou the victims of tho crash had been extricated extri-cated seven were found to be suffering from painful injuries, while morn than twenty were badly bruised.