CONCERT ROOM COLLAPSES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8807, 8 May 1907, Page 4

CONCERT ROOM COLLAPSES.

London, March 8. During a concert and cinematograph entertainment on _ Thursday night in a room on the third storey of the Tassagh Corn Mill, Armagh, the floor collapsed just as the proceedings were commencing. The audience and the artists, about three hundred people altogether, fell with the debris to the floor beneath. A great panic ensued, parents shouting for their children and children for their parents. Rescue work was promptly begun, and after some time all wore safely brought out. No one i juul boon killed, but many were seriously injured. The lady pianist had a most miraculous escape. ■ She had just got up | from the piauo when both she and it wore precipitated to the floor beneath, the instrument narrowly missing several of those who had just fallen. Danger was feared from the lamps, which were liable at any moment to explode. Tables had been laid for supper on the floor beneath, and the falling floor rested on these, thus breaking the fall of the audience. Fortunately, the cinematograph machine was not lighted at the time. It also wont down, and was completed smashed. All the injured are progressing favourably.