A Miraculous Escape from a Shattered Skylight
A 75-pound icicle crashed through a tailor shop roof, missing workers by inches.
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Dropping from the roof of an adjoining three-story building, a 75-pound icicle crashed through the skylight of Charles Drury's tailoring workroom this afternoon, sending a shower of glass over the dozen women at work, and narrowly missing two women seated at sewing machines. One employee was severely cut by the flying glass. The shop is in a one-story building at 114 South 12th St. A large skylight is directly over the workroom, and is overshadowed by a three-story building. That the huge mass of ice did not strike one of the employees is almost a miracle.
“That the huge mass of ice did not strike one of the employees is almost a miracle.”
Building codes and roof maintenance are significantly more stringent today, but the peril of falling ice remains a seasonal reality in urban environments with vertical density. 114 South 12th Street puts this shop in the heart of what is now the historic downtown core near the Tacoma Art Museum.
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