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Crash Occurred At Popular Lake Erie Winery
UPDATED: 7:05 p.m. EDT July 1, 2000
Eighty to 100 people are believed injured after a terrace collapsed at the Lonz Winery on Middle Bass Island.
Police from neighboring Port Clinton say that the cement floor fell 20 to 30 feet.
Police from neighboring Port Clinton say that the cement floor fell 20 to 30 feet.Put-In-Bay Mayor John Blatt says that he doesn't know if anyone was killed in the terrace collapse.
The area that collapsed is a cement floor that sits over an empty basement. Blatt says that it looks as though the terrace collapsed under the weight of the 80 to 100 people on it.
Emergency personnel have been called in from as far away as Toledo, Cleveland and Bowling Green.
The 121-acre winery sits on a Lake Erie island that is about six miles from the mainland. Only about 40 people live on Middle Bass Island, but as many as 1,500 visitors stay during busy summer weekends.
It has not yet been confirmed how many people have been injured in the accident.
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