Show NINE DEAD fORTY DURI I Falling of a Temporary Bridge at the Paris J Exposition Grounds Attended With i Fatal Results Over a Hundred Persons Were Walking Underneath the Bridge f When the Structure Fell With a Fearful Crash Burying Fifty PeopeThe Dead Are Six Men Two Women anda Little I GirlBridge Was Known to be Unsafe l 1 Paris April 29 815 p mAn accl J I dent within the exposition grounds caused tlc death of nine persons and Injured forty others A temporary brldgel unable to withstand the Sunday Sun-day crowd broke l The accident threw n pall over the I Immense throng who had profited by I time magnificent weather to visit the f exposition 1 Todays was probably the record attendance at-tendance Not merely the Interior of the grounds but the precincts also were crowded and tho concourse was particularly par-ticularly great along the Avenue de Sufren which forms the northern boundary of the grounds Here Is situated a big aide show the Celestial Globe A foot bridge on which tho finishing touches were being put today crosses the Avenue do Sufren connecting the side show with the ex hlblllon I was constructed wooUa with a stucco facade and with a plaster made tower at each en1 BRIDGE HAD BEEN CONDEMNED Strangely enough the bridge had been condemned only this morning The public was therefore not allowed to go upon the structure and In this way n disaster even more terrible than that which occurred was averted The gay crowd was passing along the avenue and some hundred or more persons i per-sons were walking beneath the bridge when suddenly an ominous crash was heard Before those underneath could turn aside the structure fell with a fearful crash burying nearly fifty I A shout of horror arose from the spectators and mingled with the cries I of the victims For a moment nothing I could bo distinguished but a cloud of dust and plaster A scene of the greatest great-est excitement and confusion followed I I r But this was only for a few seconds Almost immediately I the crowd attacked the debris in an effort to release those I lying l beneath The workmen within the grounds who ltd witnessed tho accident the police I and the Republican guards together I with qultea Tiumber of soldiers Jojned In the rescue work Tho prQincnaders forgot thelrSundny altlre and covered themselves with dirt and grime in tearipg away the rubbish with their hands Wooden beams and poles were I brought from life halffinished buildIngs I build-Ings nearby and were used as levers to raise tho fallen mas The victims first recovered were mostly most-ly only the Injured the dead being found later beneath the center of the structure SIX DEAD BODIES Messengers were dispatched to bring firemen and sappers with their equip ments and the first body was found after a quarter of an hours frantic labor I was that of a 111110 girl about 7 years old whose head was horribly crushed VIcllm after victim was brought to light until r row of six mutilated corpses hat been placed upon tho sidewalk and nearly forty other persons some badly and others less seriously Injured had been carried In ambulances or driven to the hospitals HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES A family composed of father mother and two girls narrowly escaped destruction de-struction ThC parents who happened to be a little ahead had gone under Iho bridge the children following Just at the moment of the collapse The I parents were killed but the children sprang back and escaped with n few I f scratches A cyclist had his smashed but himself escaped unhurt The dead are three men two omen and child one chil 5 Tho weighty plaster towers secern to be responsible for the fall of the structure CommissionerGeneral PIcard and other < high olilcials of the exposition arrived shortly after the accident and superintended superin-tended the work of relief President Loubet sent an officer of I his household for Information Several soldiers were among thein I jured and many of their comrades wero foremost In giving assistance I BLAME THE MANAGERS The disaster was the leading topic of discussion In the cafes and at other I Paris resorts this evening and strong criticism was leveled against tho exposition I ex-position authorities for allowing an unfinished un-finished structure to be used foam I being expressed that the incomplete state of the works within the exposition grouifds themselves might lead to a similar accident I I should be said however tlmj the thaj 1 exhibition authorities are not responsible respon-sible for the defective construction of I the foot bridge which was erected by the management of the Celestial Globe AH a result of the accident M Leplnb Prefect of Police hag ordered the closing clos-ing of several sideshows the structural 1 I I arrangements of rehcli v CQnflIdercd dangerous t I TIJIUCE MORE ARE fXD > Some o the Injured havo since dloil at the hospital o the corrected Itet shows that nino were Icillcd the injuries belt mostly compound fractures of time logs One woman and Ito child aro still un identified l Several of the morning papers pronounce pro-nounce severer crll1cls < ms Tho Mntln ntn su ys Those who lo not think of prow pro-w ntn the public from passing under u cardboard bridge after having theniaelves recognized It iu unsafe andthoso who have opened altrnctlonn to visitors which are of crime not protected against fire aro guilty |