Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Houses of Parliament adjourned for half a day on account of the cement...
Bigger chunks and huge blocks of cement covered the ruins of an eight story building on the corner which had just collapsed?causing all the havoc, burying alive six score workmen...
Slowly the defective cement crumbled, crunched, and then with a roar came crashing down...
Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...
...workmen arrived screaming, and had to be fought off to a distance by a second hastily assembled corps of police and soldiers. Several women, disheveled, broke through police lines and rushed among the ruins, calling to their buried sons or husbands, clawing and tugging at huge, immobile blocks of cement...