Show I DOWN WITH A CRASH Church Walls Give Way and Percipi tate Two Hundred People READING Pa October 70ver one hundred people injured is tbe record of an accident which took place this afternoon after-noon during the ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of St Marys Polish Catholic Church in this pity Probably 7000 gathered at the site of the church this afternoon to witness the ceremonies 1000 of whom were crowded on a temporary floor laid on joists and walls of the building which have been carried up one story Archbishop Arch-bishop Ryan of Philadelphia personally person-ally conducted the ceremonies After the corner stone had been laid Father Libeohi pastor of the congregation arose to speak and had scarcely commenced com-menced when the newly constructed wall gave away and onefourth of the floor fell with an awful crash precipitating 200 people to the ground a distance of eighteen feet Men women and children were thrown into a contused mass with joists bricks stone and mortar on top of them The excitement was intense but willing hands ac once commenced the work 01 extncattig tbe unfortunate many of whom had to be carried out and placid in neighboring houses where their injuries in-juries were attended and they were then removed to their homes or to a hospital It was fully two hours before the wounded were all cared for It is said that children are still missing > Its It-s not thought that more than five or six of the injured will die NO DEATHS YET READING 8None of the victims vic-tims of the corner stone laying accident yesterday have yet died but about a dozen are in a critical condition Over a hundred are injured altogether |