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Show jilGfl VERANDi FALLS WITH PARTY OF EIGHT One Woman Killed and Two. Other Persons Severely ' - Injured, by Collapse of Platform. ' ' V FALL RrVER. Mass., May 18. One woman has been killed and two persons severely mjured. by the collapse of a veranda on the third story of a house on King Philip street. Five others who were on the veranda at the time had miraculous escapes from injury or death. The dead' woman is Mrs. Vltallne Ver- gernon. and the Injured are Mrs. Octave Frenotte and Eugene Vergernon. The. party of eight were seated on the veranda when it collapsed without . warning. Miss Josephine Croteau suc-i suc-i ceeded in clinging to a portion of Hie I broken platform, but the other seven were precipitated to the veranda at the second story. The force of the contact broke the rail on this balcony and Mrs. Vergernon. Mrs. Frenette, Eugene Vergernon Ver-gernon and AT'red Vergernon, the last named aged 7 years, rolled over the edge and into the yard thirty feet below. be-low. Mrs. Vergernon's skull was frac-1 frac-1 tured and she died while being carried into the house. Eugene Vergernon and Mrs. Frenette were unconscious but Alfred Al-fred escaped without any apparent til effect. ' The three who succeeded In holding on to the second veranda had nothing more than slight bruises and Miss Cro-I Cro-I teau was rescued wlthou-injury whatever. |