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Partial brick wall collapse in Laclede's Landing closes part of Eads Bridge and a MetroLink stop

St. Louis Public Radio | By Donna Korando
Published August 12, 2015 at 5:21 PM CDT
The Cutlery Factory building is seen in the photo at left at 1:30 this afternoon. The photo at right was taken less than an hour later.
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The Cutlery Factory building is seen in the photo at left at 1:30 this afternoon. The photo at right was taken less than an hour later.

The St. Louis Fire Department reports that they believe everyone escaped from a building at 612 North Second Street where the bricks on part of the south wall fell.

Capt. Garon Mosby, said a video on the social media platform Periscope, "There were five employees working on this floor at the time of the collapse. Very fortunate that they were not in this office room or at this end of the building and were able to make it out safely."

MetroLink and vehicle travel westbound on the Eads Bridge are shut down in both directions to reduce vibrations that may cause further collapse.

The five-story brick building housed the Drunken Fish restaurant and office space.
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Donna Korando
Donna Korando started work in journalism at SIU’s Daily Egyptian in 1968. In between Carbondale and St. Louis Public Radio, she taught high school in Manitowoc, Wis., and worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the copy editor and letters editor for the editorial page from 1973-77. As an editorial writer from 1977-87, she covered Illinois and city politics, education, agriculture, family issues and sub-Saharan Africa. When she was editor of the Commentary Page from 1987-2003, the page won several awards from the Association of Opinion Page Editors. From 2003-07, she headed the features copy desk.
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