Eighty Buried in Debris When Seven-Storeyed Building Collapses
TWELVE DEAD IN PRAGUE TRAGEDY (United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) PRAGUE, Tuesday. A SEVEN-STOREYED iron and concrete building which was under construction in one of the most frequented thoroughfares of Prague collapsed this afternoon. Out of 87 workmen engaged on the building. 60 are still missing. Also, 20 passersby are believed to have been buried beneath the ruins. So far 12 dead and 16 seriously injured have been recovered from the debris. Two thousand soldiers, in addition to the whole of the city’s fire brigade, are feverishly working to reach the imprisoned men, whose cries are continuously heard. The missing include the architect of the building, which was on the point of completion. The head and limbs of a woman who was wheeling a perambulator when the collapse occurred, were found, but there is no sign of the baby. The President closed a sitting of the Senate on hearing the news, and the Mayor ordered all the new buildings in Prague to be inspected within 24 hours.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 482, 11 October 1928, Page 13
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180Eighty Buried in Debris When Seven-Storeyed Building Collapses Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 482, 11 October 1928, Page 13
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