Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Crowded Grand Stand Falls. [ARTICLE]

Crowded Grand Stand Falls.

Laporte, Ind., Sept. 3.—A large section of the grandstand of the Laporte Baseball Association collapsed at the close of the game yesterday afternoon, causing at first the fear that many had been seriously injured. All escaped, howevbr, with only slight scratches and bruises. A. number of women fainted. The crashing of heavy timbers was followed by voices crying for help. Fully a hundred persons were piled in a struggling mass but were rescued without broken bones.