A lightly edited page 1 article from the 8 Jan 1914 issue of the Simcoe Reformer newspaper.

Ingersoll's New Rink
Collapsed on Sunday

Ingersoll -- The tremendous accumulation of snow as the result of Saturday night's heavy storm caused  the collapse about 11 o'clock Sunday of a big section of the roof on the Mason Arena, the fine skating and hockey rink, which was opened two years ago.

Several of the girders supporting the roof went down, leaving a gap about 70 feet in length. The galvanized iron roofing and the timbers which supported it are now lying in a heap on the ice.

With the aid of several firemen an attempt was made to get the snow off the roof when its collapse was threatened, but it fell in while the work was in progress.
 

A lightly edited page 1 article from the 8 Jan 1914 issue of the Simcoe Reformer newspaper.

Mason's Simcoe Rink
Collapses

Disasters, so it is said, seldom come singly. Mr. George Mason certainly finds this old saw true in his case. He owns two rinks, one here and one in Ingersoll, and both were put out of commission by the heavy snow storm.

Just a few minutes before midnight on Saturday, nearly half of the roof of the big building on Lynnwood avenue crashed in. Fortunately, no one was in the building at the time. It is certainly badly wrecked, and the outlook for hockey in Simcoe this winter is anything but bright.

 

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