Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-03 | Page 2 | Fatal Accident at Funeral

FATAL ACCIDENT AT FUNERAL floor collapses and eleven are killed and fifty F injured in wreckage eleven persons were killed and more than fifty injured some probably fatally by the collapse of the decayed supports Bup ports of the flooring of the fleet street african methodist episcopal church in brooklyn N Y monday night of those killed eight were wo anen two men and one child death in nearly every case resulted from suf oc atlon arrangements had been made to bold funeral services tor sidney tain ter one of the oldest members of the church and the auditorium which 13 an the second floor of the building the ground floor being used by the sun hay school was crowded with an audi of more than persons of thorn the majority were women suddenly a splintering of timber bras heard and in an instant the half t the nearest the door collapsed carrying down more than a hundred persons who were crushed in the wreckage of the flooring and pews A great volume of dust tor a few moments hid from view the victims the remainder of the audience find ing themselves cut off from the door nd expecting every instant that the rest of the flooring would collapse un ier them fought madly to reach the windows and in some instances leaped from them and sustained serf DUS injuries