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Show FLOOR SINKS UNDER PARTY AT FUNERAL People and Corpse Precipitated Into Cellar and J3even Are Severelj - . Injured. CHICAGO, April 28. A score of mourners gathered around the coffin of Mrs. Martin Meyerhoffer in a small cottage cot-tage yesterday afternoon, suddenly felt the floor sink under them. Before they . , could escape the living were plunged into the basement with the coffin which contained the dead woman. Seven persons per-sons were severely injured, but all will recover. ' Several were caught under timbers and were released with difficulty. The 'coffin was not injured. , |