Camden Courier-Post, June 19, 1933View transcription
2 HOUSES COLLAPSE, BRICKS 'BURY' MAN
Vandals Are Blamed for Destruction of Vacant Home
VICTIM IS HURLED DOWN INTO CELLAR
Buried under a ton of bricks when the fronts of two vacant houses collapsed, Jerry White, 22, of 759 Carman Street was admitted to Cooper Hospital for observation yesterday afternoon.
The houses, unoccupied for a number of years, were at 829 and 831 Bridge Avenue. They are believed to have been weakened by vandals who had stripped the interiors of wooden supports and fixtures. Recent damage by vandals throughout the city has been estimated at $500,000.
White was sitting on the front steps of 829 Bridge Avenue when the front walls of the three-story brick buildings caved in. One of the falling bricks stunned him and the weight of the others dropped him through the porch and into the cellar.
Lee Hackney of the Carman Street address had left the spot a short time before. He and Spencer Hunley of 843 Bridge Avenue extricated White from the ruins. Sergeant Edward Carroll and a detail of patrolmen roped off the front of the damaged area while firemen were engaged in razing the remaining sections of the structures.
White's condition was not believed to be serious, according to hospital attaches.
Vandals Are Blamed for Destruction of Vacant Home
Buried under a ton of bricks when the fronts of two vacant houses collapsed, Jerry White, 22, of 759 Carman Street was admitted to Cooper Hospital for observation yesterday afternoon.
The houses, unoccupied for a number of years, were at 829 and 831 Bridge Avenue. They are believed to have been weakened by vandals who had stripped the interiors of wooden supports and fixtures. Recent damage by vandals throughout the city has been estimated at $500,000.
White was sitting on the front steps of 829 Bridge Avenue when the front walls of the three-story brick buildings caved in. One of the falling bricks stunned him and the weight of the others dropped him through the porch and into the cellar.
Lee Hackney of the Carman Street address had left the spot a short time before. He and Spencer Hunley of 843 Bridge Avenue extricated White from the ruins. Sergeant Edward Carroll and a detail of patrolmen roped off the front of the damaged area while firemen were engaged in razing the remaining sections of the structures.
White’s condition was not believed to be serious, according to hospital attaches.
