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Show BIG BUILDING CRASHES DOWN WITHOUT WARNING Nine Men Are Killed by the Collapse of New Hotel Delng Constructed at Los Angeles. Long IJench, Cnl. With no warning save the cries of tho workmen who first felt the Moors sag beneath their reel, flvo stories of tho ccntrnl wing of tho now $700,000 Dlxby hotol collapsed col-lapsed Friday morning, carrying nlno men to dentil In tho tons or tangled wreckage. About 1C0 artisans and laborers la-borers -were scattered through tho structuro at tho moment It fell, and of theso nenrly n hundred wore carried car-ried down In tho ruins. Sevon bodleB havo boon recoverod from tho mass of debris In tho basement base-ment and ono of tho Injured died at. the Long Iloach hospital. Tho last two victims wero found nt 8 o'clock Friday evening. Nino Injured workmen are being cared tor at tho hospital, but It Is bollovcd that all will recover. All ot tho men on the contractor's rolls aro accounted tor snvo one, supposed to bo still In tho ruins. Conflicting cnuses aro assigned tor tho collnpso ot tho central wing, nnd to Investigate tho disaster a commission commis-sion or architects and engineers has been appointed. |