Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — SEVEN HIE IN RUINS OF FALLING BUILDING [ARTICLE]

SEVEN HIE IN RUINS OF FALLING BUILDING

Moving of Girder Gauses Collapse of Structure. Philadelphia, July 16.—-In one of the busiest sections of the city and at a time when thousands of pedestrians were passing, a five-story brick building at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Market streets, which was being reconstructed, collapsed, burying or pinning beneath the ruins thirty-two persons, seven of whom are dead, one missing, one mortally injured and twenty-four more or less seriously hurt. The two lower floors had been ripped out end the three upper floors were shored up by heavy timbers. Steel girders were bracing the shoring. It is supposed that by moving one of the girders, the entire structure was undermined.