Show FELL WITH A CRASH Awful Catastrophe at a Cor ncrStcno Ceremony Thirty or Forty Men Were Badly Hurt Temporary Floor of a Now Cathedral at Loraln 0 Gave Way and Threo Hundred People Were Precipitated into the Basement A I Big lire at Denver Loialn Q Oct 6While a great jrovvd of people was assembled this afternoon af-ternoon to wltness Vh < 3 la > lng of the cornerstone of the new St Marys I cathedral a temporary floor on which I many of the people were standing suddenly sud-denly gave way precipitating roany men women and children Into tho hasp munt One was killed outright ten were fatiilly Injured and between thirty thir-ty and forty others were badly hint The services were Just about to begin be-gin when the accident happened Fully 3000 people were assembled on and around the platform which had been constructed across the foundation of the edifice The boards forming the tumpoiary floor had been laid across the Joists which were supported In the middle by uptight posts These supports sup-ports biolce and the hoot went down with a crash Fully 300 persons were tin own Into the pit formed by tho sagging sag-ging In the middle of the hoer Foi a moment everybody was paralyzed para-lyzed by the calamity but soon there was a rush forward by those willing to lend assistance to the crushed and itiuggllng people This made matters woiae for fifty more persons were crowded forwaid Into a hole upon hohe who went down with tho floor When the confusion had subsided somewhat many of those who were xblo to extricate themselves did so by walking or ciawllng over the less forJ lunate The work of rescue was begu it once and all were Dually taken frog the lIlt Following Is Il list of the killed and u nu mlcd Killed Mary Wobbor 3 years old daughter of Mr and Mimi Matt Web bet of Shellleld Fatally Injuied ROHO McGee skull fiaclineil ilutlo Grlllln 8 yearn old hurt In teiimlly Mis Mary McGralth left let crushed tad hurt Internally Mis John Eustln left leg crushed and chest Injured Mis Cornelius Sullivan spine Injured In-jured and left leg crushed Murysdalbcr severely crushed hurt Inlet nally Mrs M Kelly Injured Internally Mis Kate Dledilck both legs broken uul inn Internally I Mrs Muigaiet Mackert hurt Internally Inter-nally The old Catholic church was at once lutned Into a hospital A score of doctors doc-tors were called and they were kept busy for hoots caring for the Injured sevoinl ing of whom will die before moin ingThe The accident was duo to defective ttmbcis The contractor was told yesterday yes-terday that the platform was Insecure but he wild It would hold all the peo plo that could be cimuled upon it 1heie were between 1500 and WOO people peo-ple on It when It gave way Despite the accident the services were cnntlmifd and the laying of the I I coi nitstone vns completed |