Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1920 — SIXTY WORKERS BURIED BENEATH MASS OF STEEL [ARTICLE]

SIXTY WORKERS BURIED BENEATH MASS OF STEEL

Three score workmen engaged in erecting a four-story building at Emmerich Manual Training school, were buried beneath tons of steel and brick Thursday when the structure collapsed shortly before noon, but only one person is known to have been killed. More than a score were injured, some perhaps fatally. George Zitcher, foreman of the structural steel workers, jumping eighty feet from the top of the building and landing on a sand pile unhurt. The , body of the only known victim, E, W. Tabor, of Indianapolis, was recovered from the pile of wreckage more than an hour after the accident.