Times Independent | 1923-04-26 | Page 2 | Falling Walls Bury Victims

fall i 6 ahls TWO STORY BUILDING REDUCED TO MASS OF WRECKAGE AS foundation SLIPS firemen in constant danger as vie vic time tims are being taken out inmates trapped no warning of crash salt lake city mrs lee wilson 28 and crippled was embed to death wednesday and at least tour four others were seriously injured when a two tory story structure at 29 meet first south street collapsed burying its inmates la in the basement under a suffocating mass ot of adobe adow and plaster after fifty minutes of steady digging firemen from headquarters depart ment had brought out the mangled mantled body of mrs wilson her head bead smashed in by a heavy timber and the unconscious forms of lee wilson and jean lean rocco fred burtchell and sirs ars jessie pierman were still missing both it is feared may be taken from the ruins dead although doubt was ex pressed by lee wilson that Bar burtchell was in the building at the time of the crash the building weakened according to report by the removal last fall of the building adjoining it on the east caved in without warning A brick retaining I 1 wall had been erected to protect the east wall and struts and braces had been placed to reinforce this excavation on the property to the east which Is owned by the butt buff estate Is thought to have occasioned the crash when the east wall tottered and tell fell from position and brought the rest of the structure tumbling down about its unfortunate inmates