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Page 2 Section' I THE CAPITAL JOURNAL' Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 4, 1956 Workmen Trapped in Structure Collapse 0 V o M (' J mmmmmmmmmmmmMtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm "'; JACKSON, Mich. Thli li a section of the new' nesday, burying- at leait two (core workmen In Consumer Power Co., building that crumbled Wed- the debrli. (AP Wlrephoto) ' i 6 Killed, 4 Buried in Ruins as Half -Finished Building Plunges ; By AL LANIER ;JACKS0N, Mich, m With a roar like the sound of an explod ing bomb, a half-completed four- story office building collapsed without warning yesterday while dozens of men wcro working in side. At least six workmen fell creaming to their deaths amid steel girders and chunks of con crete that crashed through all four floors. Flflocn others were Injured and at least four still unaccounted for were (cared dead beneath the wrcckagu. The building, which was to contain offices of the Con sumers Power Co., was designed to withstand the shock of an A- bomb blast. '"It all happened so fast I didn't get to see very much, snld Jtussell Taylor, 64, a carpenter who was Inside the building. "There was a cloud of dust and It was over In about three sec onds. Shortly afterward I could hear the screams of Ihe jnen who were trapped," ;J. H, Crowe, a carpenter who Japanese Run Surveyors Off Air Base Land ITOKYO W Angry villagers Thursday drove off a 55-mnn Japanese government team try ing to survey land needed to en large the big U.S. -occupied Tachl kawa Air Base west of Tokyo. Four persons wero reported hurt slightly, and more serious clashes threatened. The lnnd to be surveyed, a two- acre plot accidentally left out of a previous survey, is needed to extend runways so they can takej modern jets. The adjacent Sunakawa village has lost land six times to the air field since the early 1930s. The villagers complain they are paid only a pittance. ; ;The villagers rioted In Septem ber, 1055, to protest expansion of the base and more than 70 per-; sons were Injured. 1 had left the building moments be fore, said "It sounded like a big bomb exploding." Weary rescue squads, using bull dozers, , cranes and sometimes bare hands, dug at the debrli throughout the night In the faint hope the four trapped workmen would be found alive. A tense moment came late last night when noisy generators and rescue machinery wore shut oft for 10 minutes while a dozen workers went far down into the debris to listen for moans or a sound that would Indicate lilc. Hut all was silent and the men returned wearily, to dig soma more. During the silence, the Rev. Francis Desmond pastor pf Jack- sons Queen of tho Miraculous Medal iioman Catholic church, led the huge crowd of onlookers In the Lord's Prayer. Relatives of missing men stayed at the scene through the long night tinder (he glare or floodlights. One wing of Ihe building, de signed (o keep power flowing to Michigan's mighty Industry In the event of enemy attack, caved inward about 1:30 p.m. EST yes terday as if pulled down by an invisible force. Its four heavy floors crumbled one by one and telescoped Into tho basement. About 40 electricians, car penters and construction men were working on the floor Hint gave way. Several were able to ' leap to sections that remnlned i standing, but more than a score was trapped. Doctors and nurses gave pain- killing drugs and first aid as bat tered victims were dragged clear to wailing ambulances. Clergy men gave comfort and the last rites of the church. All the city's ambulances were called to the scene three miles north of Jackson just off U.S. 127, State Police and Jackson County law officers were quickly Joined by Civil Defense workers and Red Cross personnel. Jackson is about 70 miles west of Detroit. Gov. G. 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