Death Toll From Wall Collapse to Remain at Three
Searchers on Friday accounted for the six people who had been feared missing under piles of steel and rubble after a 20-foot-high wall collapsed at a shopping mall.
Authorities said they did not expect to find more bodies in the rubble of the accident, which killed three and injured seven on Thursday.
“We haven’t any relatives asking us about anybody that might be left here,” said Fire Chief Eddie Corral.
Demolition crews were removing the last sections of a vacant department store when a section of wall common to the old store and the mall caved in.
A couple of dozen “mall walkers” were exercising at the time. Six walkers and a firefighter were injured, none of them seriously.
Officials found three bodies under the rubble. Killed were Leola Edwards, 59, Ema Curtis, 62, and Thelma Loraine Jolly, 53, all of Houston.
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