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Show BUILDING COLLAPSED, MANY PEOPLE KILLED Dig Department Store In Albany, N. Y., Came Crashing Down and a Hundred People Are Caught In the Ruins. Albany, N. Y. Tho middle- section of tho big department storo of tho John G. Myers company in North Foarl streot collapsed early Tuesday, carrying down with It over 100 persons. per-sons. Caught In n chaos of brick, plaster nnd wooden beams, between twenty and thirty men, women nnd children met death. Twelvo hours' frantic work on tho part of nn nrmy of rescuers res-cuers disentangle! fifty peoplo, six of them dead nnd many of tho rest badly Injured. Tho collapso camo shortly nftcr tho opening hour, when barely n scoro of shoppers wore In the store A clock found In tho debris had stopped at 12 minutes before 9 o'clock showing when tho crash came. Tho best nccounts of tho ovent that probably caused tho ruin Is given by tho head of tho crockery, glass and drug department, which occupies tho basement. "Tho workmen were Bnwlng nt a wooden floor beam," said he, "which runs under tho northern end of tho pillars In tho mlddlo of tho store. Excavation Ex-cavation for tho cellar was going on about tho baso of this pillar, and I be-Hovo be-Hovo that Jarring of tho beam beneath It displaced tho foundation of tho pillar." Tho pillar which gave way supported support-ed tho ends of two glnnt girders nnd when It fell, tho mnln Biipport of tho central part of tho building was gone. With n nolso that could bo heard blocks nway nnd which shook tho adjoining buildings, nearly half tho great structuro from cellar to roof nnd extending from ono sldownlk to tho other camo grinding down. When tho flro department nrrrlvcd they had plenty to do In rescuing those who wero pinned under tho top wreckage. In a short tlmo tho city's cntiro hospital hos-pital nnd nmbulnnco forco wns on tho scene, aided by half u hundred doctors doc-tors from nil parts of tho city. |