Workmen Saved by Apparatus Test
Twenty-five men working under a church in Greene, Ia., owe their lives to the chance that prompted the Fire Department to test its new apparatus at a playground near the church.
The building had been raised on large jacks to make it possible to construct a basement. When the apparatus rolled into the playground, the men left their work to watch the demonstration. Shortly afterwards the whole bracing structure of the church collapsed. The rear of the church crumbled into the excavation, and the steeple which is over one hundred feet high, was thrown over thirty degrees from the perpendicular.
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