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Cologne Archive Building Collapses
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Mar 03, 2009 05:23pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Mar 03, 2009 05:00pm |
| Description | The building housing Cologne's municipal archive collapsed on Tuesday, bringing parts of some surrounding structures down with it. At least two people are missing. Some of the documents housed in the archive date back to the year 922.
First they heard loud creaking noises. Then, workers in the Cologne city archive building were ordered to get out as quickly as they could. Shortly afterwards, the entire structure collapsed, bringing down parts of neighboring buildings along with it.
The disaster on early Tuesday afternoon took place right in the heart of the city. Eyewitnesses reported huge clouds of dust as the rubble from the building completely covered the street. "The entire intersection was covered in a dark fog," Paraskevi Oustampasiadi, a local shopkeeper, told the German news agency DPA. "It looked like Sept. 11."
Some 200 fire fighters rushed to the scene. It was unclear whether anyone had lost their lives in the collapse. A police spokesman told SPIEGEL ONLINE that a married couple, who was said to have been in a neighboring building which partially collapsed, is missing. Police dogs are currently searching the rubble.
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