| Show FROM ROOF OF F Yo iii fl CELLAR GELLAR Ni Nine Persons r Seriously Injured t J Slightly in Unusual Un- Un usual sual Accident lo- lo r DL Y WRECKED i. i Support t or of lar Lar-c Lar Water Tank Give Ghe it L tt in IS Hea Heavy n Receptacle 7 r Q f h Pour Floors i t i r Pa June Juno S. S Tilo Tho Tho sup- sup Py pf i a. a Jaro water tank on Oil the tho the Fite building to GIG street l. l occupied b by nearly a of or mercantile an and light manu- manu f tao l. l li Concerns erns collapsed this af- af causing the tile tank to crash i from from the tho roof root to tho tile basement base base- ment t wrecking the tile rear part of or tho the building and seriously Injuring nine Utile persons Over O a score more who went do down yn In the thc wreckage escaped with lIght slight brul bruises es an and left leCt before their c could be learned learne Tho accident treated great excitement as asit it did f in iii 1 the tue heart hearl of or the tile wholesale district t and first reports wore were that over overa ovora a hundred had been killed tI or injured The Tho Injured George or e Mercer considerably in- in jurod l int Internally nt r a ly condition very cry ser eec ious l' l ThomasS S Mercer shoe h. h l. l w t. t MiK l nd face t a J ia Beck Ck 7 Injured about aboul ill Y t. t u wl Susan Ross floss cut about head anc am ant anta face Cace a cc Margaret Nardi severely cut n ant bruised ed Tulle Schwartz arm in broken ant anti and head hea cut Mary Mercer back hack seriously sprained tar l Alary Jackman severe scalp wounds James Robinson contusions on neck and anti back bael All of tile the injured wore were removed to hospitals four Cour ambulances being oil on oti the thc scene a i-hort i time after actor tho tile accident accident acci acci- dent den occurred Story Four Brick The Tile collapsed building was a four- four story brick hrick structure Tho The most of ot the lie third floor was wa-s occupied by the Thomas Mercer Sons Shoo Shoe compan company com COrn pany pan employing a largo Jargo number of or women and girls Most Mot of tho tile injured were employed ed by that concern which was directly in the tile path of tile the falling Calling tank A f few w moments after atter tho the accident accident acci acci- dent kilt occurred dozens of rescuers In Including In- In eluding eluding- policemen an and firemen were at al work among the tile wreckage e taking out nut Inmates In Ill less than half an hour al after r the tile tank fell tho tile wreckage o had been thoroughly searched anti and the tile last Jast victim leUm r removed lOo The building was damaged to the tile extent of or 10 |
