People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — BIG BUILDING FALLS. [ARTICLE]

BIG BUILDING FALLS.

Lucky Kscape from Death in a Chicago Amusement Resort. Chicago, 111., Aug. 22.- At 11:15 o’clock last night the Coliseum, the gigantic amusement building of Chicago, fell with a crash. It was within a week of its final completion. Bui an hour before 400 workmen were hurrying on the building. It was too early for the large morning shift that began at 2 o’clock, and fortunately no one was injured. The loss, it is believed, will reach $125,000. The cause 'of the accident could only be conjectured last night. The-. Coliseum was designed in Italian Renaissance style. It was to be 770 feet in length by 300 feet wide. This groat area of 240,000 square feet, or nearly five and one-half acres, was.to be inclosed and covered with a great root. The seating capacity was calculated at 40,000. The building was to have been opened Sept. 2.