EIGHT WORKMEN KILLED
BUILDING COLLAPSES IN FRANCE • (Australian and. N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) PARIS, Tuesday. The number of deaths caused by the collapse of reinforced concrete buildings under construction on the continent has been increased by a disaster at Saumur, where five workmen were killed and six injured. About 20 men were engaged in removing the internal scaffolding supporting the roof moulds when the entire building, wb-ich had been designed to store machine guns, collapsed like a house of cards. Seven bodies have been extricated from the ruins. Another man died in hospital. It is believed t|at six others are buried.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 9
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102EIGHT WORKMEN KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 9
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