PORTLAND — A masonry column collapsed on the Lewis & Clark College campus Monday night, Aug. 29, killing one student and injuring two others, according to the college and Portland Fire & Rescue Bureau.

The student killed is a 19-year-old man, and the two students injured are both 18-year-old women.

Investigators learned six people were in three hammocks that were attached to four free-standing columns on the campus when one column fell inward toward the students, according to Portland Fire spokesperson Terry Foster.

The free-standing brick columns are next to the campus swimming pool, centrally located to the east of the reflecting pool and Great Plat Field. The students were on three hammocks situated in a Z-formation between the columns. Two students were in each of the three hammocks, Foster said.

Fire and ambulance crews were called to the campus shortly after 8:15 p.m. on reports of multiple people injured due to a collapsed brick column.

Three ambulances, three fire apparatus, along with Portland police, responded to the college campus off South Palatine Hill Road. Campus security helped the emergency responders get quick access to the injured. The columns are located on the undergraduate campus between the reflecting pool and what’s known as the Great Plat Field.

AMR ambulance paramedics were first on the scene and confirmed that a 19-year-old was deceased.

The 19-year-old man was not pinned under a column but appeared to have been struck by the column that fell, Foster said. The column was about 9 to 10 feet tall, and 20-by-20 inches, he said.

One 18-year-old suffered injuries to her arm, and the other 18-year-old injured sustained abdominal injuries, according to the fire bureau.

Both women who were injured were taken to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital for treatment.

Aug. 29 marked the first day of classes for the college’s fall semester.

“We are devastated to report that earlier this evening, a tragic accident occurred on the undergraduate campus in which one of our students was killed and two others were injured,” college spokesperson Lois Davis wrote in a statement. The college is working to contact the students’ families.

“We are deeply saddened by the shocking loss of a member of our community,” the statement said.