In Scotland, one of Edinburgh's oldest tenements collapses killing thirty-two sleeping inhabitants

Just after one in the morning in the ancient buildings along the High Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, a ninety foot tenement collapsed in pile of rubble and buried around eighty people.  Rescuers were able to pull many of the families, mostly poor working-class, from the ruins but a total of thirty-two people were found crushed to death. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1861 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1862), p. 226-227.
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    Crime/Disasters
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