Roof of Palestine Building Collapses
Posted/updated on: October 19, 2011 at 5:59 pm
PALESTINE (AP) — The downtown section of an East Texas city shook during the lunch hour when the roof of a four-story building partially collapsed. No injuries were reported in the fall of much of the roof and street-side wall of the top story of the 98-year-old Ivanhoe No. 15 building fell on the eastern end of downtown Palestine.
Police Sgt. Jeff Powell says the public first reported the collapse just before noon Tuesday. The Ivanhoe No. 15 building was built in 1913 as the meeting place for the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization. The top floors were vacant, while the bottom floor has been used for commercial office space in recent years.
