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Show FIFT Y PERSONS PRECIPITATED IlfTO PIT, mm VIADUCT CAUSE Police and Hospital Ambulances Am-bulances Rush to Rescue Res-cue of People Hurt in Big Frisco Accident SAX FRANCISCO, Cal., Jn. 1. Fifty persona were pain- fully and some aererely injured aliortly . afUr.. inulnight, v.lien . viaduct ovar an excavation for a building under opnstrujctlon, collapsed while filled with New Year revelera. A number sustained broken bones. Every police and hospital ambulance In the vicinity was rushed to the scene and men In full dress carried daintily gowned women from the wreckage to the waiting vehicles. The emergency hospital was unable to accommodate all of those brought In and many of those less seriously hurt were cared for ae they lay on Improvised cots made ef eoete e,nd blankets nn the hospital floor. - The viaduct was at the new State theatre building, at Market and Taylor Tay-lor streets, being built for Marcus Loew. Its collapse precipitated over 10(1 persons Into the twenty-five-foot pit which whs being dug beneath the sidewalk. Those most severely Injured In-jured fell on a pile of bricks. Many were saved from eerloua hurts by alighting on a sa mi pile. . |