BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: Officials say that structural problems may be to blame for yesterday's floor damage at a winery in Ohio. One person died and 75 others were injured, some of them seriously, when a concrete terrace collapsed into a basement Saturday. Here with more is CNN's Gary Tuchman.</s>GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): About 104 Fourth of July weekend-visitors were crammed under the cement terrace of an Ohio winery, on an island in Lake Eerie, when the four-inch think floor crumbled late Saturday afternoon, falling into a cellar storage area 18 feet below.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sitting there, actually waiting, and all of a sudden -- I mean, you couldn't even realize what happened to you. I mean, it was like that. I mean, you were down and you were gone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There was a thump and this loud noise. And people started walking in the doors, running the doors, pushing each other. And we said: "What's the matter?" And they said: "You don't want to see it. You just don't want to it. There's bodies and people flying everywhere.</s>TUCHMAN: Soon after, people pulled doors off hinges to help carry the injured out of the cellar of the Lonz winery, a music and wine-drinking club. Emergency personnel were called from as far away as Toledo, Cleveland, and Bowling Green, Ohio.</s>MASTER CHIEF STEPHEN BETTERS, U.S. COAST GUARD: There was an unbelievable amount of people, with everything from compound fractures to punctured lungs and amputation. It was a phenomenal scene, with extreme emergency and a lot of injuries.</s>TUCHMAN: The injured were ferried off Middle Bass Island by helicopter and boat. The 120-acre winery, a popular tourist attraction for years, is in the process of being sold. Authorities closed the winery after the accident, and will start an investigation. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Ottawa County, Ohio.
Structural Problems May Be to Blame in Ohio Terrace Collapse