With a deafening roar the fourth floor of an uncompleted six—storey concreto bolldlng collapsed In the city yesterday afternoon. Four men were dead when extricated from the wreckage, and three toro seriously Injured. ...
Article : 1,432 wordsWhen Mr. F.J. Davies, the architect, examined the structure, one of the first things he noticed was the imminent danger of the collapse oi the fourth floor ...
Article : 575 wordsConcrete might be described as a coarse mortar, and for ordinary construction work it would usually consist of Portland cement, sand, and gravel, or other hard material ...
Article : 487 wordsThis view of Stewart street, takon from Franklin street, looking towards a'Beckett street, shows the ruined building on the loft, and the brldgo connecting the main building of the Drrtlsh-AustnilasLin Tobacco Company. In the foroBvound is one of the ambulances walting to take an injured work ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsM. Brean, a labourer, said —' I canno understand how Aercbibald was caught ii the wreck. I was talking to him a few rnuutes before the accident in the fron ...
Article : 132 wordsAlthough a coherent account of what exactly happened before and daring the collapse was not obtaunablc from men employed on the building, a thrilling story ...
Article : 356 wordsConstructed of reinforced concrete the building was being erected by Messrs. Cochram and Cooper contractors of Little Collins street, for the British Australasian ...
Article : 135 wordsA heavy iron window frame which fell from the fourth story, gave F. Dodd, n labourer, who was mixing cement is Stew art street, a naming of the impending ...
Article : 153 wordsUpon learning of the tragcdv tlie Lord Mayor (Councdlor W. Brunton) said—"I am very much shocked at the newB of the regretful accident. I desire to express my ...
Article : 54 wordsCommenting upon the work of the Fire Brigade, the deputy chief officer (Mr. J. T. Wilkins) said that a call was received at 20 minutes to 5 o clotlc, stating that several ...
Article : 134 wordsPitiful scenes were witnessed when the bodies of tlie victims were brought to the ambulances. Lighted only by hurricane lamps and electric torches, the ambulance ...
Article : 155 wordsSerious collapses in concrete buildings ore unusual Mr. J. Laing etvtl engineer, bud last night tliat ho hail only two records of similar accidents One ol ...
Article : 105 wordsThe falling concrete presented a ternfying spectacle when seen from a building opposite to it in Stewart street, occupied by Hutchinson Pty. Ltd, mantle inturufac ...
Article : 171 wordsAt an early hour tins morning it was reported at the Melbourne Iloipital that there had hern little change in the condi tion of tie injured men ...
Article : 30 wordsWilliam Oman, a whitewnsher of Oakleigh crescent, Ormond, was on the floor with the other six workers who were cither killed or senonsly injured. Oman was ...
Article : 485 wordsHie first members of the police force on the bcenc were Constables Mcintyre and Conway Thev were patrolling Swanston street about 50 yards from the building ...
Article : 328 wordsSeveral of the worlkmen engaged white washing the building were related. Mr. Gorge Mirahill liui his son and brother ulivy (Mr. Exlwird Fallaner) working at ...
Article : 78 wordsThe 'Morning Post" states that the re port of Hie Food Cominusion, the draft of which was approved to-day, definitely recommends the creation of a food council ...
Article : 185 wordsNews of the disaster was conveyed to the city engineer (Mr H I. Morton) is soon as possible Mr. Morton at once tnsrtcd the building and mide in inspection of the ...
Article : 334 words"L. cannot account for the collapse", said the architect, Mr. F.J. Davies, of Queen street, last night, after he had made a preliminary survey of tlie WTeckcd building ...
Article : 497 wordsTaken from the topmost point of the Stewart street frontage of the British-Australasian Tobacco Company s main building, this remarkable photograph shows the full extent of the wreckage. The wholo of the upper two stories of the company's seven story extension collapsed upon the ceding of the fifth floor. Great stabs of reinforced concreto havo swung outwards over the remaining walls, while high at the rev and side are the concreto moulds which wore carrying the building to completion. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsA decree ordering the "Big Five" meatpackers of Chieago to divest themselves of all their holdings outside the meat business was suspended to-day by the Supreme ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Navy department has announced the development of i 5m antiairciafl gun that will grcatlv exceed in range the he gun now used in naval vessels. The first ...
Article : 154 wordsWith a fractured skull a boy whose name is not known was admitted to the Alfred Hospital at 2 o'clock this,morning. THe boy, who was aged about 10 years, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 25 Apr 1925, Page 33
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