Collapse of Buffalo Pumping Station.

Collapse of Buffalo Pumping Station.

Five men were crushed to death, three died from injuries, and three are in hopitals in a serious condition through the collapse last Friday of a large section of the new $400,000 building of the Buffalo, N. Y., municipal waterworks at the foot of Porter avenue on the lake front. The five, supposed to have been working on the root at the pump house end of the structure, are buried under tons of masonry which, according to unofficial reports, crashed into the 50-foot machinery pit after the snapping of a steel truss. About 40 men were at work when the structure trembled as more than 200 feet of its heavy roof swung downward, carrying with it the greater part of the sidewalks. Men jumped from the crumbling mass in all directions. Two plunged into the canal and were rescued by occupants of a motorboat. Firemen, police and soldiers from Con Porter were quickly at work in the wreckage. and six injured were rushed to hospitals. One died in an ambulance, and Frederick Kerber, engineer, and Edward Mex, tile helper, on operating tables. Hours elapsed before those buried in the machinery pit could be reached, and, of course, they were dead when found.

Five men were crushed to death, three died from injuries, and three are in hopitals in a serious condition through the collapse last Friday of a large section of the new $400,000 building of the Buffalo, N. Y., municipal waterworks at the foot of Porter avenue on the lake front. The five, supposed to have been working on the root at the pump house end of the structure, are buried under tons of masonry which, according to unofficial reports, crashed into the 50-foot machinery pit after the snapping of a steel truss. About 40 men were at work when the structure trembled as more than 200 feet of its heavy roof swung downward, carrying with it the greater part of the sidewalks. Men jumped from the crumbling mass in all directions. Two plunged into the canal and were rescued by occupants of a motorboat. Firemen, police and soldiers from Con Porter were quickly at work in the wreckage. and six injured were rushed to hospitals. One died in an ambulance, and Frederick Kerber, engineer, and Edward Mex, tile helper, on operating tables. Hours elapsed before those buried in the machinery pit could be reached, and, of course, they were dead when found.